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A Syrian doctor accused of torturing, experimenting and killing prisoners of a government institution has appeared in court today in Germany.
Alaa Mousa, 36, came to Germany in 2015 on a professional immigrant visa after working at the military intelligence prison in the city of Homs from April 2011 to December 2012.
He then started working as a doctor in Germany, as in one of the cases in Syria he had given a fatal injection to a prisoner who resisted the beating.
In other cases Mousa is accused of spilling fuel on a prisoner’s wounds before setting him on fire and beating him barbarically, the court was told.
One of his former prisoners Ahmad A., who already lives in Austria, will be one of the main witnesses of the accusation, writes the daily Der Spiegel.
In another case Mousa was summoned to Homs prison where an inmate suffered an epileptic seizure, which prosecutors accused him of shooting him in the face and then beating him with a plastic tube.
The man had died a few days later after taking a pill that Mousa had given him, although the cause of death is officially unclear.
Prosecutors charge him with one count of murder and 18 counts of torture, grievous bodily harm and psychological harm.
After coming to Germany he worked as an orthopedic doctor, before being arrested in June 2020 by denunciations from some Syrians.
Prosecutors said Mousa worked at the 608 military hospital in Homs and the 601 military hospital in the capital Damascus, where they were being held as dissidents against the Assad regime.
But instead of treatment many of them were tortured or killed, prosecutor Anna Zabeck said.
The accused denies the charges, the trial continues.
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