Le Monde
French arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad challenged in Paris appeals ...
May 17, 2024 - The French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office has requested that the arrest warrant, issued in November 2023, be annuled, on the grounds of absolute personal immunity for sitting heads of state.
Al Jazeera
Switzerland to try Syria’s Rifaat al-Assad for war crimes | Courts ...
After he was convicted in France ... Bashar al-Assad, allowed him back into war-torn Syria, ending his more than 30 years of exile in France. The complaint against him was first filed in 2013 by TRIAL International, a rights group that works with victims and pushes Switzerland to prosecute alleged international criminals. The criminal proceedings in Switzerland were finally initiated under so-called international jurisdiction, which allows countries to prosecute alleged crimes against humanity, ...
Published: March 17, 2024
Aa
Bashar Assad’s uncle to stand trial in Swiss court for war crimes ...
March 13, 2024 - Rifaat Al-Assad charged with ordering homicides, torture, cruel treatment, illegal detentions in 1982 Hama massacre - Anadolu Ajansı
Reuters
Switzerland to try Assad's uncle for crimes against humanity | Reuters
March 13, 2024 - Switzerland's Attorney General's Office said on Tuesday that it would put an uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity dating back to his time as a military commander in 1982.
Voice of America
Swiss to Try Syrian President’s Uncle for War Crimes
March 13, 2024 - 15, 2011, will be tried in Switzerland for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, Swiss prosecutors said on March 12, 2024. ... Swiss prosecutors referred Rifaat Assad — the uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad — for trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity that he ...
I24news
Switzerland To Prosecute Uncle Of Syrian Leader Bashar Al-Assad ...
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PRIF BLOG
The French Arrest Warrant for Assad – Breaking New Ground in ...
November 29, 2023 - On November 14, 2023, a French Magistrate Judge issued an arrest warrant for Syria´s President, Bashar al-Assad. The Court found sufficient evidence to initiate proceedings against Assad for complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity, specifically the use of chemical weapons.
CNN
France issues arrest warrant for Syrian President Assad | CNN
November 21, 2023 - France has issued an arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over the alleged use of banned chemical weapons against civilians in Syria, a judicial source told CNN on Wednesday. According to the source, two investigative judges on Tuesday issued four warrants against Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad, and two other senior officials, for complicity in crimes ...
The Guardian
French court issues arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad for complicity ...
November 28, 2023 - Campaigners seeking justice for ... the subject of an arrest warrant in another country for crimes against humanity. “The French judiciary’s issuance of arrest warrants against the head of state, Bashar al-Assad, and his associates constitutes a historic judicial ...
NYTimes
French Judges Issue Warrant for Assad in Syria War Crimes Case
November 19, 2023 - French investigative judges have issued an international arrest warrant for President Bashar al-Assad of Syria that accuses him of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity over the deadly use of chemical weapons against his own people, a judicial official said on Wednesday.
Al Jazeera
France issues arrest warrant for Syria’s al-Assad | Bashar al-Assad ...
The warrant charges Syria’s president with complicity in ‘crimes against humanity and complicity in war crimes’. Syria's President Bashar al-Assad [Handout/Saudi Press Agency via Reuters]
Published: November 18, 2023
Fidh
Syria/Chemical weapons: Bashar al-Assad, his brother and two Syrian ...
November 17, 2023 - Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad, and two Syrian generals stand accused of complicity in crimes against humanity and complicity in war (…)
Global News
France issues war crimes arrest warrants for Syria’s Bashar ...
November 16, 2023 - More than 1,000 people were killed with chemical weapons in two attacks in 2013. France issued war crime arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
PBS News
France issues arrest warrants for Syrian President Assad, 3 generals ...
November 15, 2023 - Lawyers for victims say French judicial authorities have issued international arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar Assad, his brother Maher, and two army generals for their alleged involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Crd
Arrest Warrants Issued for Syria's President al-Assad and Three ...
November 15, 2023 - This is a historic moment — with ... international crimes, even at the highest level”, says Steve Kostas, Senior Managing Lawyer at the Open Society Justice Initiative. “The French judiciary’s issuance of arrest warrants against the head of state, Bashar al-Assad, and his associates ...
Trtworld
40 thousand gigabytes: An archive of Assad's war crimes in Syria
June 3, 2022 - A young Syrian man fled the war ... of crimes committed by the Syrian regime from 2011 to now. ... Tamer Turkmani stares at his laptop screen for hours every day. A Syrian national, Turkmani has been collecting photographic and video evidence of people who have been killed in the course of the Syrian civil war. · Turkmani's goal is to maintain a digital archive of the victims who have been shot dead by the troops loyal to Bashar al Assad...
ReliefWeb
Syria: Mass graves discovery additional evidence of Al-Assad's ...
March 19, 2022 - Geneva – Two mass graves filled ... Bashar Al-Assad's regime have been found according to a press investigation. The international community should activate pressure and legitimate accountability techniqes to hold Al-Assad's regime accountable for its brutal human rights violations, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement. The discovery revealed by an investigation published by The New York Times is yet one among many pieces of evidence of crimes committed ...
Foreign Policy
The U.S. Must Oppose Normalizing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
January 22, 2022 - They must be removed, charged, tried, and convicted for their crimes against humanity. The Syrian civil war has killed over 350,000 people and maimed thousands more—including in over 300 chemical weapons attacks, the vast majority of which were perpetrated by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s ...
CBS News
The evidence of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his regime's ...
July 12, 2021 - The images you are about to see ... war crimes of the 21st century. As we reported last winter, President Biden and his national security team face a horror that erupted when many of them were in the Obama administration. Last March brought the 10th anniversary of the popular uprising that began Syria's civil war. The Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, has gassed ...
Daily Sabah
New documents reveal Assad regime's war crimes in Homs | Daily Sabah
July 11, 2021 - New documents reveal the Bashar Assad regime's involvement in war crimes against civilians in a hospital in the city of Homs. The Syrian Opposition...