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A 100-year-old man on trial for his alleged role as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp during World War II, Josef Schuetz, has told a German court he is innocent. Schuetz is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory murder at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. He allegedly worked at...

Based on the principle of universal jurisdiction, German courts and investigators are taking on criminal cases that occurred outside German borders including the genocide of Iraq’s Yazidi minority and torture in Syria’s prisons. According to a Syrian lawyer in Germany Joumana Seif, Syrians have...