Who are the nine Assad regime officials sentenced to death in Syria?
Fifteen years after the first anti-regime protests, a court in Damascus has sentenced former president Bashar Al Assad and eight ex-officials to death. Among those to receive the death penalty is Atef Najib, who previously served as head of the Political Security Branch in Deraa, and Maher Al Assad, the brother of the former president who led army units. Najib was tried in person, with the others…
In a Damascus court, former President Bashar Al Assad and eight other Assad regime officials have been sentenced to death. Atef Najib, who once headed the Political Security Branch in Deraa, and Maher Al Assad, Bashar's brother who led army units, were among those tried in person. The others, including Fahd Jassem Al Freij, Mohammad Ayman Ayoush, Louay Ali Al Ali, Qusay Ibrahim Mihoub, Wafiq Saleh Nasser, and Talal Fares Al Aysami, were convicted in absentia. They were all found guilty of crimes committed during the country's ongoing civil war.
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