Pengadilan Suriah pada hari Selasa menjatuhkan hukuman mati secara in absentia kepada mantan penguasa Bashar al-Assad atas dakwaan kejahatan perang.

Selain Assad, saudaranya yakni Maher Assad dan sepupu dari pihak ibu, Atef Najib, juga divonis hukuman mati.

DAMASCUS, Aug 11 — A Syrian court today sentenced former ruler Bashar al-Assad to death after a trial in absentia, convicting him of atrocities committed during the...