Reuters quoted two Lebanese security officials as saying: Rifaat Al-Assad The uncle of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled the Lebanese capital, Beirut, to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates during the past few days.
The two officials said that many members of the Assad family left for Dubai from Beirut, while others have remained in Lebanon since the overthrow of the regime. Bashar al-Assad On December 8 of this year.
Reuters also quoted in its exclusive report the two Lebanese officials as saying that the Lebanese authorities had not received a request from the International Police (International Police).Interpol) to arrest the Assad family, including Rifaat.
They indicated that they do not know whether Rifaat or other members of the Assad family intend to remain in Dubai or leave elsewhere. Reuters also reported that the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not yet responded to a request I addressed to it for comment in this regard.
Rifaat al-Assad faces charges in Switzerland of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity while leading a bloody suppression of an uprising that took place in Syria in 1982.
Rifaat (87 years old) is the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. He led special forces that crushed an Islamic uprising in 1982 in the city of Hama, causing… Hama massacre During which tens of thousands of people were killed.
In 2022, the Syrian Network for Human Rights – an independent organization – said that between 30 and 40 thousand civilians were killed in Hama during that massacre.
The Swiss Public Prosecutor’s Office referred Rifaat al-Assad to trial on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against the backdrop of his role in the killings and torture in Hama, based on the principle that all countries have jurisdiction over such crimes.
But the Swiss judicial authorities said earlier this December that they proposed canceling the trial due to his poor health.
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