Former Assad officer sentenced to 60 years in US for torture

Former Syrian official sentenced to 60 years in US prison for torturing prisoners under al-Assad’s regime.A former Syrian military official convicted of torturing prisoners during the rule of former President Bashar al-Assad has been sentenced to 60 years in a United States prison.A federal judge in Los Angeles sentenced Samir Ousman Alsheikh on Thursday. A jury found him guilty in March of one count of conspiracy to commit torture and three counts of torture while in charge of Syria‘s infamous Adra Prison from roughly 2005 to 2008.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Russia resupplies military bases in Syria for first time under new deallist 2 of 3Syria abolishes al-Assad-era ‘terrorism’ court as Kurdish tensions flarelist 3 of 3‘People don’t have money’: Syrian fuel hikes deepen economic painend of list“The conduct was heinous, unimaginably cruel, and almost unspeakably violent and brutal,” the judge said before announcing the sentence.Human rights groups and the United Nations have accused the Syrian government officials of widespread abuses in detention facilities, including torture and arbitrary detention of thousands of people, in many cases without informing their f...