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Bashar al-Assad, responsible for 202,000 civilian deaths, now plays video games in Moscow luxury apartment

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Bashar al-Assad, the man who killed 202,000 civilians including 23,000 children, gassed 1,400 people to death in a single attack, and ran a torture network so sadistic that prisoners were kept in cells with rotting corpses, is now spending his days in a Moscow luxury apartment playing video games, Die Zeit reports Russia granted the 60-year-old former Syrian president asylum on "humanitarian grounds," because it's important to be nice to people …
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Boing Boing broke the news in United States on Friday, October 17, 2025.
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