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Kate Connolly in Berlin

German court sentences Syrian doctor to life in jail for crimes against humanity

A man covering his face in court
Alaa Mousa, centre, with face hidden under a hood, in court in Frankfurt, Germany, on 16 June. Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images

A Syrian doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity in his home country – including murder and torture – by a German court.

The 40-year-old man, Alaa Mousa, worked as a junior doctor in an army hospital and a military intelligence prison in Homs and Damascus in Syria, in 2011 and 2012, in the early phase of the civil war.

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