{"id":245564,"date":"2026-08-12T02:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/245564\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T02:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:23:25","slug":"former-syrian-president-assad-sentenced-to-death-in-absentia-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/245564\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Syrian President Assad sentenced to death in absentia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mgn-1280x720-80409p00-txpwt-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4422107 attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Mgn 1280x720 80409p00 Txpwt\"  \/>Bashar al-Assad, 19th President of Syria, addresses the press, Photo Date: 3\/4\/2018, Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic, MGN<\/p>\n<p>DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) \u2014 A Syrian court sentenced in absentia ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad along with his younger brother to death on Tuesday for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria\u2019s 14-year conflict that left about half a million people dead.<\/p>\n<p>Also sentenced to death in the same case was Assad\u2019s maternal cousin Atef Najib for leading the crackdown in the southern province of Daraa that led to the uprising and later the civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Amid tight security, Najib stood inside a cage wearing a prisoner\u2019s uniform as the judge read the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Assad and his brother Maher fled to Russia after insurgents marched into Damascus in December 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Najib was later detained and became one of the highest-ranking officials to be put on trial.<\/p>\n<p>Najib is a former Syrian army brigadier general who was head of the Political Security Branch in southern Syria\u2019s Daraa province under Assad in 2011.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bashar al-Assad, 19th President of Syria, addresses the press, Photo Date: 3\/4\/2018, Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[30034,887,1721,37070,95,68328,68329],"class_list":["post-245564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-atef-najib","tag-bashar-assad","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-maher-assad","tag-syria","tag-syria-war-crimes","tag-syrian-court-death-sentence"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117080163021335428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}