Defendant Alaa M (L), accused of crimes against humanity including torture and murder in his war-torn homeland Syria, stands next to his lawyer Ulrich Endres (R) as he waits on January 19, 2022 at court in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, for the start of his trial in the latest European case against loyalists of President Bashar al-Assad's regime. - Syrian doctor Alaa M., 36, who arrived in Germany in 2015 and practised medicine there until his arrest, faces 18 counts of torturing detainees at military hospitals in Homs and Damascus in 2011-12, including setting fire to a teenage boy's genitals. (Photo by Boris Roessler / POOL / AFP) (Photo by BORIS ROESSLER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
