German police arrest Syrian man suspected of crimes against humanity

BERLIN: German police arrested on Tuesday a Syrian man suspected of committing crimes against humanity, including killing and torturing, as a militia leader in 2011 in Aleppo, prosecutors said. The Syrian national, identified only as Anwar S. in line with German privacy laws, is suspected of being head of the “shabiha militia” deployed in Aleppo on behalf of the former Syrian leadership under then-President Bashar Assad.

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