Overview
- The Federal Court of Justice dismissed the defendant’s revision after finding no legal errors, confirming the OLG Hamburg’s December 18, 2024 judgment.
- The 3rd criminal senate responsible for state-security cases issued the decision, leaving no further ordinary remedies against the conviction.
- The Hamburg court found he was a leading member of the Assad-linked Shabiha militia in Damascus from 2012 to 2015 with responsibility for abuses against civilians.
- Judges attributed two instances of physical mistreatment of detainees, forced hours-long sandbag labor at front-line barricades, and coerced provision of goods by shopkeepers.
- He arrived in Germany as a refugee in 2015, was arrested in August 2023 in a federal case led from Bremen, indicted in April 2024, tried from June, and sentenced to ten years for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and related offenses.