Federal prosecutors said that the doctor, identified as Alaa, in line with German privacy rules, worked in a Military Intelligence prison in the city of Homs from April 2011 until late 2012.
The doctor is accused of murdering a person, torturing 18 others, causing serious physical and psychological harm to another person, and committing other crimes, including a crime that led to the death of a prisoner.
The defendant entered Germany in 2015, and the authorities allowed him to practice medicine after certifying his Syrian medical documents. He was working in a hospital near the central German city of Kassel, where a large number of Syrian refugees recognized him and reported him to the police.
In one case, a doctor is accused of beating a protester after prison officials summoned him to a hospital to treat a man suffering from an epileptic fit due to torture, who later died.
German authorities also accused the doctor of deliberately killing a prisoner by injection to prove his “power and to suppress the uprising of a part of the Syrian population,” according to the Frankfurt Regional Court.
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