{"id":170408,"date":"2025-07-25T11:31:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=170408"},"modified":"2025-07-25T14:07:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:07:40","slug":"french-court-to-decide-whether-assad-can-be-stripped-of-immunity-and-tried-for-chemical-weapons-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/170408\/","title":{"rendered":"French court to decide whether Assad can be stripped of immunity and tried for chemical weapons use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

France’s highest court will rule on Friday whether former Syrian President Bashar al- Assad can be stripped of head-of-state immunity, a decision that could clear the way for his trial in absentia over alleged chemical weapons attacks, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

If the ruling is made, it would set a legal precedent for prosecuting sitting or former leaders accused of atrocities.<\/p>\n

Al-Assad is facing a trial before France’s Cour de Cassation in absentia over the use of chemical weapons in Ghouta in 2013 and Douma in 2018. The former Syrian president, however, denies the accusation.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

France’s highest court will rule on Friday whether former Syrian President Bashar al- Assad can be stripped of head-of-state immunity, a decision that could clear the way for his trial in absentia over alleged chemical weapons attacks, Euronews writes. If the ruling is made, it would set a legal precedent for prosecuting sitting or former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":170337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,51,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-law","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}