A Damascus court has sentenced former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and ex-security official Atef Najib to death in absentia for civil war crimes, CNN reports.
A court in Damascus has sentenced former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia, according to a report by CNN
The court also handed down a capital punishment verdict to Atef Najib, the former head of the political security directorate in the Daraa province.
Both were found guilty of committing crimes during the Syrian civil war.
The trial was conducted without the defendants present, as their current whereabouts remain unknown.
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