(AP) A German court convicted a Syrian man Tuesday of torturing captives while he was a member of the Islamic State group in Syria.
The Berlin regional court found Raed E. guilty of war crimes, membership of a foreign terrorist organization and other offences. It sentenced the defendant, whose surname wasn’t released in line with German privacy rules, to 11 years in prison.
Prosecutors said the 32-year-old joined IS in 2014 and participated in targeted attacks on the Shueitat tribe in the Deir el-Zour region of eastern Syria.
