{"id":234,"date":"2026-08-11T09:12:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/?p=234"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:12:30","slug":"syrias-ousted-leader-bashar-al-assad-sentenced-to-death-for-crimes-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Syria&#8217;s ousted leader Bashar al-Assad sentenced to death for crimes against humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-133148608,imgsize-476317,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/ousted-syria-dictator-bashar-al-assad-pti-file-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Syria's ousted leader Bashar al-Assad sentenced to death for crimes against humanity\" title=\"Bashar al-Assad gets death sentence by local Syrian court\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Bashar al-Assad gets death sentence by local Syrian court\">Bashar al-Assad gets death sentence by local Syrian court<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Syria&#8217;s former president and ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad and Atef Najib, the former head of political security in the southern province of Deraa, have been sentenced to death by a criminal court in Damascus.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>According to the Daily Mail, the court on Tuesday convicted Assad of &#8220;crime against humanity&#8221; while Najib was found guilty of premeditated murder and torture.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Former Syrian leader Assad fled Damascus and flew to Moscow in December 2024 after his government collapsed after strong wave of anti-regime force.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The court ruling convicted him in his absentia over the charges of &#8220;war crimes&#8221; and &#8220;crimes against humanity.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/middle-east\/syrias-ousted-leader-bashar-al-assad-sentenced-to-death-for-crimes-against-humanity\/articleshow\/133148343.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bashar al-Assad gets death sentence by local Syrian court Syria&rsquo;s former president and ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad and Atef Najib, the former head of political security in the southern province of Deraa, have been sentenced to death by a criminal court in Damascus.According to the Daily Mail, the court on Tuesday convicted Assad of &ldquo;crime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}