(AFP) A German appeals court Wednesday lengthened the jail term for a Syrian refugee found guilty of war crimes and taking part in the kidnapping of a Canadian UN peacekeeper.
The defendant, named only as Suliman al-S., 28, was sentenced to four years and nine months for the 2013 abduction carried out in Damascus by an Islamist militant group.
German prosecutors had appealed against a more lenient prison term of three and a half years that the Stuttgart court had handed down in September 2017.
Suliman al-S. arrived in Germany as a refugee in 2014 and was later granted asylum.
