Der frühere Machthaber Syriens, Baschar al-Assad, ist von einem Gericht in Abwesenheit zum Tode verurteilt worden – wegen „Kriegsverbrechen“ und „Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit“. Folgen hat das für ihn zunächst nicht.

A criminal court in Damascus sentenced former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia on Tuesday for premeditated murder, torture, arbitrary detention and crimes…

A Syrian court has sentenced former leader Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher to death after convicting them in absentia for war crimes and crimes against humanity during the…