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US court sentences Sedra Prison director to 60 years
A U.S. court has sentenced Samir Othman Al-Shiekh to 60 years in prison. He is a former Syrian official who led the Sedra Prison in Damascus during Bashar al-Assad's regime. Al-Shiekh, 74 years old, was convicted of conspiracy and torture for his involvement in mistreatment of prisoners inside the prison, where he ordered physical and psychological abuse of government opponents and sometimes personally participated in such acts. He was also charged with lying to immigration authorities and illegally obtaining a green card and U.S. citizenship. Al-Shiekh is the highest-ranking former Syrian official to be prosecuted and convicted outside of Syria. The U.S. Department of Justice announced that the sentence comes as part of international investigations into human rights violations in the Syrian regime's prisons.
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