Sheikh Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun was retired yesterday by the Syrian president. (Credit: AFP)
The former grand mufti of Bashar al-Assad’s Syria is on the run after being spotted in Aleppo and followed back to his home by a crowd calling for his arrest. Alleppians first caught a glimpse of Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun sitting in the passenger seat of a car en route to his home in Aleppo’s al-Furqan neighborhood.The Sunni cleric is accused of having given his approval to the former regime for the massacres of countless political opponents, particularly in the notorious Sednaya prison. !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");In a video filmed the same night, Hassoun is confronted by the crowd gathered around his house. One man calls him the...
The former grand mufti of Bashar al-Assad’s Syria is on the run after being spotted in Aleppo and followed back to his home by a crowd calling for his arrest. Alleppians first caught a glimpse of Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun sitting in the passenger seat of a car en route to his home in Aleppo’s al-Furqan neighborhood.The Sunni cleric is accused of having given his approval to the former regime for the massacres of countless political opponents, particularly in the notorious Sednaya prison. !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");In a video filmed the same night, Hassoun is confronted by the crowd gathered around his house. One man calls him...