German court convicts man over Syrian war crime from 2014
23 February 2023 |
8:37 pm
The defendant has been sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison over an attack that killed four people. Germany's rule of universal jurisdiction allows it to try people for crimes committed abroad.
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