Rifaat al-Assad is accused of ordering crimes as a commander in Hama in February 1982, Swiss attorney general says. Swiss federal prosecutors have referred Syria’s ex-Vice President Rifaat al-Assad, the uncle of the country’s current president, for trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed more than four decades ago. The criminal proceedings in Switzerland were …
Paris court finds Rifaat al-Assad guilty of acquiring French property using funds diverted from the Syrian state. A Paris court has sentenced the 82-year-old uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to four years in prison and ordered the confiscation of all his property in France as well as one of his London properties. Wednesday’s ruling came in a trial that …
