![Publication cover](https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/content_image/public/assets/syrian-official-war-crimes-infographic-thumb.jpg?itok=ZL1n8EkD)
In a landmark judgement on 13 January 2022, the German Higher Regional Court of Koblenz sentenced a former high-ranking Syrian official to life imprisonment for his involvement in crimes against humanity. In 2021, an associate of the high-ranking official was sentenced by the same court to four and a half years’ imprisonment for crimes against humanity and torture.