_News_ | *Germany* *Life sentence for doctor who led torture in Assad's prisons*👇 A Frankfurt court on Monday sentenced Syrian doctor Alaa Mousa to life in prison for torturing and killing detainees in the Assad regime’s military hospitals between 2011 and 2012. The verdict was based on 50 testimonies. The indictment detailed over a dozen torture cases involving Mousa. Witnesses said he beat detainees on their wounds, burned their genitals, and carried out surgeries without anesthesia. The trial spanned 186 sessions over three years, following Mousa’s arrest in 2020, which was prompted by an investigative documentary by Al Jazeera and Germany’s Der Spiegel that exposed his torture crimes in Assad’s hospitals in Syria. The revelations came after he had moved to Germany in 2015 and began working in several medical centers.