The Koblenz Higher Regional Court passed a verdict last week that the world is watching: In the first ever trial on Syrian state torture, the judges sentenced a Syrian secret service employee to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.

We talk about this with the human rights lawyer Fritz Streiff, who accompanied the proceedings with his podcast Branch 251. 

Corinna Budras

Business correspondent in Berlin.

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The Federal Court of Justice has announced a landmark judgment on whether shopkeepers are allowed to reduce their rent because of the corona lockdown.

We also discuss the first legal policy project of the new Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann: he wants to make advertising for abortions unpunished. 

Surprising things have also happened in the past week in the fight against the corona pandemic: those who have recovered can only claim exceptions to the corona measures for three months.

What's it all about? 

And finally, we choose the “just verdict of the week”.

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The topics of the program:


03:06: Focus on Syrian state torture: Interview with Fritz Streiff


35:20: The BGH on commercial


rents 45:40: The Federal Minister of Justice wants to delete §219a StGB


01:07:26: Recovered for only three months & Updates


01:25:40: The Just Judgment