Author: Roman Kenny-Manning

Roman Kenny-Manning is a Law with German Law undergraduate student at the University of Oxford, who is currently on an Erasmus year at the University of Bonn for the year 2020/21. He is also a student research assistant at the Institute for Public International Law

Higher Regional Court in Stuttgart convicts an IS member of war crimes

Published: 14 January 2021 Authors: Stefan Talmon and Roman Kenny-Manning

On 19 November 2020, the Higher Regional Court in Stuttgart sentenced the 32-year-old Syrian national Fares A. B. to 12 years’ imprisonment for, inter alia, an attempted war crime against persons by killing and a war crime against persons by torture, as well as membership of the foreign terrorist organisation “Islamic State” (IS). (more…)

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