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Koblenz (dpa) - After the first judgment in what, according to the indictment, is the world's first criminal trial for state torture in Syria, the Federal Prosecutor's Office waived an appeal.
"We will not appeal," said a spokeswoman for the Karlsruhe authority of the German press agency.
The lawyer of the convicted Syrian, Hannes Linke, said against it: "I have appealed."
He had previously announced this step.
The revision period expired on Wednesday (March 3rd) at midnight at the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz.
On February 24, it sentenced one of the two defendants to four and a half years in prison.
According to the conviction of the judges, the Syrian Eyad A. was guilty of complicity in a crime against humanity (Az. 1 StE 9/19).
The 44-year-old who fled to Germany and was arrested here was an agent of the state general secret service in Syria.
According to the OLG, he helped bring 30 Arab Spring demonstrators to a torture prison.
The trial in Koblenz, which began in April 2020, is to continue against the Syrian main defendant Anwar R. (58).
A spokeswoman for the Federal Prosecutor's Office said of the first judgment that from the authority's point of view, no legal errors were apparent.
In their pleading in the process, the Federal Prosecutor's Office had demanded five and a half years in prison, i.e. only one year more than what was stated in the judgment.
The defense, on the other hand, had demanded acquittal in their closing lecture because of an apologetic emergency: Failure to give orders would have threatened agent Eyad A.'s life.
Attorney Linke now added that he would examine the written judgment, among other things, with regard to the sentencing and the emergency of his client in his work within the hierarchy of the secret service.
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The Federal Prosecutor's Office charges the main defendant, Anwar R., of 58 murders and the responsibility for the torture of at least 4,000 people.
At the beginning of the trial, the former colonel denied these allegations.
He too had fled to Germany and was arrested here.
The ongoing Koblenz trial against him is internationally recognized.
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