⚖️ Syrian court sentences former President Bashar al-Assad, brother Maher and 6 former officials to death 📜 Court convicts defendants of crimes including

⚖️ Syrian court sentences former President Bashar al-Assad, brother Maher and 6 former officials to death 📜 Court convicts defendants of crimes including murder, torture, abduction, crimes against humanity and war crimes over crackdown beginning in Daraa in 2011 📌 Verdict marks first Syrian judgment holding Assad and members of his former leadership criminally responsible for 2011 crackdown and violence that followed