German court convicts Eyad al-Gharib of Syrian state torture in unprecedented trial
24.02.2021
Syrian Eyad al-Gharib has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison by a German court for his role in the Syrian state torture regime, in the first verdict of its kind worldwide. (dpa)
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