INTERVIEW - Former Detainee Recounts Torture, Executions at Syria’s Tishreen Military Hospital Under Assad

INTERVIEW - Former detainee recounts torture, executions at Syria’s Tishreen Military Hospital under Assad

‘We were brought here not for treatment but for execution. There was no treatment,’ Bassel Farran tells Anadolu

Bashar al-Assad: golden retirement, video games, ophthalmology… what happens to the former dictator responsible for 500,000 deaths, as his trial begins in Syria?

the essential While the trial of Bashar Al-Assad opened in absentia in Damascus on April 26, 2026, the former Syrian leader leads a protected and luxurious existence in Russia. Between fortified villas in Moscow and return to ophthalmology, the Assad clan enjoys a golden retirement under the watchful eye of the Kremlin, far from the courts of the Syrian transition. Justice always ends up knocking at the door, even if the accused is 2,500 kilome…