Assad’s Cousin Sentenced Death

DamascusWassim al-Assad ran armed groups accused of trafficking captagon.

The verdict is the first to link Assad-era enforcement directly to Syria’s narcotics economy.

A Fourth Criminal Court convicted him of murder, torture and forming two militias that raided Eastern Ghouta.

Bashar and Maher al-Assad were sentenced to death last week too, but appeals and offshore assets remain untested.

Sources: TRT World, South China Morning Post, Al Jazeera Online