Syrian rebel-turned-refugee gets life sentence in Austria for killing wounded Assad troops

‘A Syrian asylum seeker has got a lifetime imprisonment in Austria on Wednesday for killing a total of 20 government troops during his time with a rebel group in Syria. The charges did not include terrorism.
The sentenced 27-year-old man (name not disclosed) was arrested in June 2016 after the other refugees reported him to the authorities for boasting about killing soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army.
The killings in question are said to have happened in the western region of Homs in 2013 and 2014.
The accused initially confirmed the killings during first interrogations. Yet, following the start of a trial, he switched his position, denying any wrongdoing and claiming instead that his words had simply been badly translated.’
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