High-ranking member of Assad’s regime arrested in Syria

Syria’s caller authorities person announced the apprehension of Atif Najib, a erstwhile elder information serviceman and relative of ousted President Bashar al-Assad. Najib is seen by galore arsenic being liable for suppressing the archetypal protestation which triggered Syria’s 2011 uprising.

Najib was arrested successful occidental Syria successful the Latakia countryside, wherever the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported helium "was hiding successful a farm."

He is the highest-ranking subordinate of Assad’s authorities to beryllium arrested since Assad was ousted from bureau successful December.

"The transgression Atif Najib has been referred to the competent authorities to beryllium tried and held accountable for the crimes helium committed against the Syrian people," the authoritative SANA quality bureau reported, citing a elder information official.

Najib was the caput of governmental information successful Daraa successful confederate Syria, nether Assad’s regime. Syria’s nationwide uprising was sparked by the apprehension and torture of children successful Daraa, whom, the Observatory said had been arrested for "writing sentences criticizing the authorities connected their schoolhouse walls."

The protests successful Daraa that followed the children’s arrests evolved into the 2011 uprising that Assad’s authorities responded to with a brutal crackdown.

Ahmed al-Sharaa is Syria’s recently appointed transitional president. Before being appointed to his existent role, Sharaa was the person of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a U.S.-designated violent group, that spearheaded the run successful December to wrest power of the state from Assad. Assad fled to Russia, ending much than fractional a period of oppressive regularisation by him and his precocious father, Hafez al-Assad.

Some accusation successful this nonfiction was provided by Reuters and Agence France-Presse.