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· collected 2026-09-17 · by Sudhin Thanawala The Associated Press
Samir Ousman Alsheikh, a former Syrian military official, is set to be sentenced this Thursday by a federal judge in Los Angeles for his role in torturing prisoners at the Adra Prison during President Assad's regime from around 2005 to 2008. Earlier this year, a jury convicted him of one count of conspiracy to commit torture and three counts of torture. The potential sentence could span several decades.
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Samir Ousman Alsheikh, a former Syrian military official, is set to be sentenced by a federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday for his role in torturing prisoners during President Bashar Assad’s regime. In March, a jury convicted him of one count of conspiracy to commit torture and three counts of torture while he was in charge of the notorious Adra Prison from approximately 2005 to 2008. Alsheikh faces a potential decades-long prison sentence for his crimes committed against detainees during Syria’s civil war.
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A former Syrian military official convicted of torturing prisoners during President Bashar Assad’s regime is facing a possible decades-long prison sentence in the U.S.
A federal judge in Los Angeles is scheduled to sentence Samir Ousman Alsheikh on Thursday.
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A jury found him guilty in March of one count of conspiracy to commit torture and three counts of torture while in charge of Syria’s infamous Adra Prison from roughly 2005 to 2008.
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