Tag: Maher
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Bashar al-Assad has been convicted to death in absentia: his extradition from Moscow seems unlikely
Yesterday, Syria’s Fourth Criminal Court in Damascus handed down landmark death sentences against ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad and their cousin Atef Najib, together with six other former officials of their regime. The case was presided over by Judge Fakhr al-Din Mustafa al-Aryan, with associate judges Abdul Hamid Muhammad al-Hamoud and…