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Bashar al-Assad

Commons · Question 22005 · Tabled 6 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 15 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with international partners to prosecute the former President of Syria Bashar al-Assad.

Answer

Answered by Hamish Falconer, 15 Jan 2025

The UK will work closely with civil society and the international community to support a Syrian-led transitional justice and accountability programme to ensure that those responsible for war crimes and other atrocities are held to account. Accountability ...