The British Metropolitan Police has opened a war crimes investigation into Asma Assad, the wife of Syrian President Bashir.
He brings it back Sky News. The British-born woman is accused of having “supported and encouraged terrorism” in Syria. If she is indicted, the British police will be able to request her extradition.
Asma Assad is 45 years old. She was born in London to Syrian parents and grew up in the capital. After her marriage to Bashar al-Assad in 2000, she arrived in Syria. Currently, together with her husband, she tested positive for Coronavirus.
The investigation began after Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers, a legal group specializing in cross-border litigation and human rights, presented “two confidential documents and evidence” on Bashar Assad’s 45-year-old wife to the Metropolitan Police’s War Crimes Unit.
The group said it had spent “months” investigating allegations that Asma had “supported and encouraged terrorism” in Syria. According to Guernica 37, Assad’s wife is part of a group of “influential personalities” who used a “propaganda” and “disinformation” campaign of the type used “by the Syrian regime to deny the accusations of genocide”. The Metropolitan Police did not confirm the ongoing investigation but limited itself to reporting to Skynews that its War Crimes Unit received a “report relating to the conflict in Syria” on 31 July.
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