Syria sentences Bashar al-Assad’s cousin to death

The 46-year-old relative of Assad was convicted over atrocities committed under the autocrat's rule during the country's nearly 14-year civil war.

Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan said Wassim al-Assad was convicted of multiple murders and "murder accompanied by torture and brutality..."

The former regime figure was found guilty of charges including premeditated murder and torture.

The judge who sentenced Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia last week was himself sentenced to death in absentia by the same regime years earlier. Irony in its purest form. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan defected from the Ministry of Justice in 2013 joining the judicial bodies of the opposition. His rein

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