Former Syrian prison boss gets 60 years for torturing inmates
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The judge called Samir Alsheikh's treatment of prisoners unimaginably cruel in rejecting his bid for just five years in prison.
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A former Syrian military official convicted of torturing prisoners during President Bashar Assad’s regime is facing a possible decades-long prison sentence in the U.S. A federal judge in Los Angeles is scheduled to sentence Samir Ousman Alsheikh on Thursday.
Samir Ousman Alsheikh was convicted by a jury in March of three counts of torture, one count of conspiracy to commit torture, visa fraud and attempted naturalization fraud.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Syrian military official convicted of torturing prisoners during the rule of former President Bashar Assad has been sentenced to 60 years in a U.S. prison.
Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, part of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, was in charge of Adra prison where prisoners were tortured This article contains descriptions of torture. A US federal court in Los Angeles sentenced a former Syrian government official who ran one of the country’s most infamous prisons to 60…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - A former Syrian government official who headed the Damascus Central Prison under ousted PresidentBashar al-Assad and was convicted of torture by a US federal jury has been sentenced to60 years in prison by a US judge, federal prosecutors said.
A former Syrian prison chief under the Assad regime has been sentenced to 60 years in a U.S. prison for ordering and participating in the torture of detainees and lying to immigration officials, according to the Justice Department.
