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Atef Najib

Atef Najib

Former head of Political Security, Deraa province

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Syria opens first public trial of Assad-era officials

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On trial in Damascus; held since January 31, 2025

On April 26, 2026, a brigadier general in a brown prison uniform stepped into an iron cage at Damascus's Palace of Justice. The general was Atef Najib, al-Assad's cousin, whose 2011 detention of Deraa teenagers lit the fuse of Syria's civil war; he became the first official of the fallen regime to face a public trial.

Updated May 31