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British MPs call for Assad's wife to lose citizenship |
2017-04-17 |
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] UK politicians are calling on the government to strip Syrian ![]() Pencilneckal-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's wife of her British citizenship, for supporting her husband's regime during the country's ongoing war. The Liberal Democrats' foreign affairs front man, MP Tom Brake, on Sunday accused Assad of using her international profile to defend "a barbarous regime". "(Foreign Secretary) Boris Johnson has urged other countries to do more about Syria, but the British government could say to Asma Assad -- either stop using your position to defend barbaric acts, or be stripped of your citizenship," Brake said. His remarks follow Johnson branding the Syrian president an "arch-terrorist", in a Sunday Telegraph newspaper article calling on Syria ally Russia to end its support for Bashir al-Assad. Brake's comments echoed those of MP Nadhim Zahawi, from the ruling Conservative Party. "The time has come where we go after (Bashar) Assad in every which way, including people like Mrs Assad, who is very much part of the propaganda machine that is committing war crimes," he was quoted in the Sunday Times newspaper as saying. |
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