The German public prosecutor has charged the Syrian doctor, Alaa, with crimes against humanity.
M, after the Al-Jazeera documentary "Searching for the Executors of Assad" and the joint investigation with the German magazine "Der Spiegel" revealed crimes of torture committed by the accused in the regime's hospitals.
The German Public Prosecutor indicated that the Syrian doctor - who worked in two military hospitals affiliated with the Syrian regime between 2011 and 2012 - was accused in 18 cases of torture, and one case of murder.
The German public prosecutor charged the Syrian doctor with torturing detainees - including children - and burning their organs with alcohol, beating broken bones, and performing fracture correction operations without anesthesia.
The information published by the German public prosecutor appeared in a joint investigative investigation between Al Jazeera and the German newspaper, Der Spiegel, entitled “The Search for the Execution of the Lion,” which revealed the emigration of the accused doctor to Germany in 2015 and his work in hospitals in the cities of Göttingen and Bad Wildungen.
The film follows a number of suspects accused of crimes against humanity, who went to Europe under the pretext of asylum or immigration;
The film's producers used a range of investigative techniques, including geolocation techniques, witnesses and exclusive data.
The doctor was arrested in June of last year and has been in pretrial detention since then.