Life imprisonment for Syrian intelligence officer, Anwar Raslan
The German judiciary issues its final verdict on the Syrian intelligence officer, Anwar Raslan
International vision: The German judiciary has sentenced a former Syrian intelligence officer to life imprisonment for committing crimes against humanity, at the conclusion of the first trial in the world centered on atrocities attributed to the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
The Regional High Court in Koblenz (western Germany) ruled that Syrian Anwar Raslan, 58, is responsible for the killing of detainees and the torture of thousands of others in a secret regime detention center in Damascus, between 2011 and 2012.
This is the second verdict issued by the German judiciary in this trial after the conviction of another officer from the Syrian intelligence, the lowest rank, in February 2021.
