AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Syrian court sentences Bashar Assad to death in absentia for war crimes
A Damascus court has sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad and his brother to death for crimes against humanity, the first judicial verdict against the Assad inner circle since the family's half-century grip on power collapsed. Judge Fakhareddine al-Aryan read the sentence Tuesday from the Fourth Criminal Court in central Damascus, a session aired live […] The post Syrian court sentences Bashar Assad to death in absentia for war crimes appeared first on American Almanac .
A Damascus court has sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad and his brother to death for crimes against humanity, the first judicial verdict against the Assad inner circle since the family's half-century grip on power collapsed. Judge Fakhareddine al-Aryan read the sentence Tuesday from the Fourth Criminal Court in central Damascus, a session aired live on Syrian state television. Assad, his younger brother Maher, and their maternal cousin Atef Najib all received death sentences for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during Syria's 14-year civil war, a conflict that killed roughly half a million people. The verdicts mark the first time a Syrian court has held any member of the Assad regime formally accountable since…Open