Cuba rejects arrest warrant for Syrian president • Workers

Bruno Rodriguez BarillaCuba’s foreign minister has rejected an arrest warrant issued in France for Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, which will eventually be enforced in the European Union.

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International media reported that a court in Paris ruled on Wednesday that the international arrest warrant issued by France against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on charges of complicity in war crimes during the Syrian civil war was valid.

French judicial authorities issued international arrest warrants in November against the president; His brother Maher al-Assad, commander of the 4th Armored Division; The two Syrian generals, Ghassan Abbas and Bassam al-Hassan, are accused of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity, including participating in a 2013 chemical weapons attack against the suburbs of Damascus that were then occupied by the opposition.