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Judicial complaints against Bashar al-Assad resurface in Lebanon

Two legal procedures were initiated in 2020 and 2021 to prosecute ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad for ‘kidnapping, deprivation of liberty and intentional murder.’

Judicial complaints against Bashar al-Assad resurface in Lebanon

Bassam Agha, vice-president of the Change movement, Eddy Abillamaa, former LF MP, Elie Mahfoud, president of the Change movement, and Claude Hayek, lawyer within this party (from left to right). (Credit: Claude Assaf)

The fall of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Dec. 8, and the immediate release of thousands of detainees from Syrian prisons, has rekindled hopes in Lebanon that the Syrian government will be held accountable for the decades-long...
The fall of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Dec. 8, and the immediate release of thousands of detainees from Syrian prisons, has rekindled hopes in Lebanon that the Syrian government will be held accountable for the decades-long...