{"id":354318,"date":"2026-08-11T04:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/former-syrian-president-assad-sentenced-to-death-in-absentia"},"modified":"2026-08-11T04:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:18:17","slug":"former-syrian-president-assad-sentenced-to-death-in-absentia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/former-syrian-president-assad-sentenced-to-death-in-absentia","title":{"rendered":"Former Syrian President Assad sentenced to dying in absentia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">DAMASCUS, Syria &#8212; <\/span>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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Amid tight security, Najib stood inside a cage wearing a prisoner\u2019s uniform as the judge read the sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Assad and his brother Maher fled to Russia after insurgents marched into Damascus in December 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Najib was later detained and became one of the highest-ranking officials to be put on trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/International\/wireStory\/former-syrian-president-assad-sentenced-death-absentia-135538421\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAMASCUS, Syria &#8212; A Syrian court sentenced in absentia ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad along with his younger brother to death on Tuesday for crimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30749,7797,30753,904,8918,30752,30751,609,3575,30750,8624],"class_list":["post-354318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-atef-najib","tag-bashar-assad","tag-daraa","tag-head","tag-maher","tag-military-brigadier","tag-political-safety-department","tag-president","tag-russia","tag-southern-syria","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354320,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354318\/revisions\/354320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}