Bashar Al-Assad in Podcasts
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The cousin of the former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has appeared in court on charges including murder, torture and responsibility for massacres. Ataf Najib is accused of overseeing a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters in Tehran in the 2011 uprising during the so-called Arab Spring. The landmark trial is seen as the first attempt towards bringing justice for the countless victims of the ousted regime. Our correspondent Lina Sinjab was at the packed hearing in the Syrian capital Damascus.
Edi Torfik with that report. Officials in Syria say the main suspect in one of the most notorious massacres of the country's civil war has been arrested. Amjad Youssef was wanted over the mass killing of civilians in 2013 in the Tadamon district of Damascus. Human rights groups say uniformed Syrian army officials and members of a militia loyal to the then president Bashar al-Assad killed at least 41 people in just one day.
After the fall of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad a year ago, Israel seized a former UN-established buffer zone between the two countries and territory beyond it in southern Syria.
I did have the, I guess, fortune or misfortune, depending on how you look at it, of covering Syria during the kind of early stages of the protest movement, the uprising, and eventually what became a civil war of a bunch of opposition factions against Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The country has seen a rise in sectarian violence since the fall of Bashar al-Assad last December.
After the fall of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad a year ago, Israel seized a former U.N.-established buffer zone between the two countries and territory beyond it in southern Syria.
His fighters toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad last December.
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