Syrian doctor gets life sentence in Germany for slayings, torture under Assad
According to German prosecutors, Alaa Mousa, 40, abused and killed prisoners suspected to be enemies of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad while working as a doctor in military hospitals and prisons in the early 2010s. During this period, Mousa was stationed for a time at military hospital Mezzeh No. 601, later made infamous when a Syrian defector helped photograph thousands of corpses in the facility mutilated by torture.
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