# Damascus court sentences Bashar al-Assad’s cousin to death — TV

https://mins.news/en/item/25016

- TASS, 2026-08-18 10:47 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2174589

> Syria TV reports that Damascus’s Fourth Criminal Court sentenced Wassim al-Assad, cousin of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, to death for premeditated killings, murder involving torture, and acts intended to incite civil war and sectarian conflict. The court cleared him of smuggling and drug-trafficking charges for lack of evidence and ordered his property seized.

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