In Sweden, prosecutors have convicted a Syrian soldier of committing a war crime—marking the first war crimes conviction of a member of the Syrian military since the beginning of the ongoing war. Former soldier Mohammad Abdullah had been living in Sweden for three years. The landmark conviction came after Syrian refugees in Sweden identified him and connected him to a photo he had posted on Facebook showing him smiling while standing over a pile of bloody corpses with his boot on one of the bodies. After years of pressure by the Syrian refugees, Abdullah was convicted in Swedish court of “violating human dignity” and has been sentenced to eight months in prison.