Rifaat al Assad sentenced to 4 years imprisonment in appeal

 The uncle of current syrian president Bashar Al Assad has been sentenced to 4 years imprisonment in appeal by a french court for organised money laundering. Severel properties seized.

Read the reporting of french newspaper Le Monde:

This is the second "ill-gotten gains" case to be tried by French courts, after the one involving Equatorial Guinea's vice-president, Teodorin Obiang. The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed, Thursday, September 9, the conviction of Rifaat Al-Assad, uncle of the Syrian leader, Bashar Al-Assad, to four years of imprisonment for having fraudulently constituted in France an estate valued at 90 million euros.

Case 24: Beaten up by militia

A handcuffed man is beaten and mistreated by 4 militia or intelligence personnel. One of the perpetrators is wearing a purple poloshirt with the inscription "Qualified" or "Qualifeo" on the back. Another wears a blue Adidas baseball-hat.

 

The fate of many forcibly disappeared is still unsolved

An interesting insight provided by PRI (Public Radio International) about the relatives of disappeared in Syria on their efforts to obtain information on the whereabouts of their loved ones.

It isn't clear how many Syrians have been detained and are missing. The Syrian government doesn’t release figures and it doesn't allow human rights groups to visit detention centers.

Last week, Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs at the United Nations, briefed the Security Council on the issue of detainees, abductees and missing persons in Syria.

She said more than 100,000 people have so far been detained, abducted or gone missing — largely, but not only, at the hands of the Syrian government.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-08-16/we-have-suffered-enough-say-families-missing-and-detained-syria