France’s highest court upholds some of Bashar Assad’s legal protections
France’s highest court on Friday upheld some of Syrian ex-leader Bashar Assad’s personal immunity as a head of state, while allowing possible future war crime warrants, drawing criticism from human rights lawyers and Syrian activists.
The Cour de Cassation upheld Assad’s head-of-state immunity, but added that since he is no longer in office, “new arrest warrants may have been or may be issued against him for acts that may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity”.
