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Syrian court sentences Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia — TV

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DOHA, August 11. /TASS/. A court in Damascus has handed down a death sentence to former President Bashar al-Assad in absentia, Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera reported.

According to it, former head of the political security directorate in the Syrian province of Daraa Atef Najib was also given a capital punishment sentence. The court found them both guilty of "crimes committed during the civil war."