A dissident's story: How Assad’s cousin Najib inflicted violence before revolt that led to death sentence
Syrian dissident Mahmoud Eisa was about to step into a taxi in Damascus with a communist comrade in the autumn of 1992 when security agents ambushed them. They were shoved into a white Peugeot that took them to a security branch. With them in the car was Atif Najib, the intelligence operative sentenced to death by a Damascus court on Tuesday for his role in cracking down on peaceful protests that…
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