The Kremlin says claims that ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad's wife is filing for divorce to move to London are “not consistent with reality”, saying the couple are living in Moscow after fleeing Syria. He claims to be under house arrest.
Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, fled the crumbling regime to Russia. He told reporters that a report aired that he was filing for divorce just days after the divorce. of jerusalem post office said The claims were made by “Turkish and Arab media” over the weekend, which claimed that Asma was seeking a divorce and wanted to move to London.
Furthermore, it was claimed that their movements were strictly controlled by the Russian government, including banning them from leaving Moscow, and that their assets were frozen.
Peskov is said to have flatly rejected the claims, saying: “No, they do not correspond to reality.” The truth of the matter is currently difficult to ascertain, with neither Bashar al-Assad nor his wife appearing in public since his ouster, and claims and counterclaims presented without evidence on either side.
Asma, 49, was born in London in 1975 to Syrian parents and grew up in Britain, attending an exclusive private school. She met her future husband Bashar while in London studying medicine, and the two married in 2000, a few months after Bashar became Syria's president. She quit her job as an investment banker in the City of London and moved to Syria.
Asma has been accused of using her British background and attractive appearance to sanitize the Assad regime, and this seems to have worked to some extent. Even in the midst of the Arab Spring, fashion The magazine published a fascinating and now infamous profile of Syria's first lady. desert rose.
Asma is believed to hold British citizenship and a passport, despite having been Syria's first lady for more than 20 years and under the British government's sanctions regime for more than a decade. The is a guardian memo Foreign Secretary David Lammy said earlier this month that people with or without a passport would be stopped at the border if they tried to return to London.
He said: “In the last few days, I have seen Asma Assad mentioned. [is] A person with British citizenship may be attempting to enter our country and we would like confirmation that she is a sanctioned person and is not welcome here in the UK. ”
It is reported that Asma Al Assad is currently suffering from cancer. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018, was photographed wearing a scarf while undergoing chemotherapy, and was declared cancer-free the following year. She was diagnosed again earlier this year and in May was told she had acute myeloid leukemia, a bone and blood cancer.
