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Jamil Hassan

Syrian major general

Summary

Syrian major general

Field	Value
name	Jamil Hassan
birth_date
birth_place	Al-Qurniyah, Homs, Syria
allegiance	Ba'athist Syria
branch
party	Ba'ath Party
rank	[[File:3 Syrian Ba'athist Air Force Major General Service Dress Uniform.png	30px]] Major General
unit	Syrian Air Force
battles	Islamist uprising in Syria
Syrian civil war
native_name	جميل حسن
native_name_lang	ar
office	Director of Air Force Intelligence Directorate
termstart	1 July 2009
termend	7 July 2019
predecessor	Abdul Fattah Qudsiyeh
successor	Ghassan Ismail
office2	Deputy Director of General Intelligence Directorate
term_start2	2004
term_end2	2009

Syrian civil war

Jamil Hassan () is the former head of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence Directorate and a former close adviser to President Bashar al-Assad.

Hassan oversaw a network of detention facilities including the Mezzeh Prison where inmates were tortured.

Career

Hassan was appointed head of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence Directorate (SAFI) in 2009.

Sanctions

Hassan was sanctioned by the European Union on 9 May 2011 on the grounds that he was "involved in violence against the civilian population" during the Syrian civil war. On 29 June 2011, the United States also sanctioned him due to his involvement in human rights abuses in Syria.

Hassan gave an interview for The Independent in November 2016, disproving claims of his assassination. He stated that the tactics used in the 1982 Hama massacre would have ended the Syrian civil war much faster.

Criminal investigations

Germany

In June 2018 German news magazine Der Spiegel reported that Germany's chief federal prosecutor had issued an international arrest warrant against Hassan for his alleged involvement in the torture and murder of hundreds of prisoners.

France

In November 2018, French prosecutors issued international arrest warrants for three senior Syrian intelligence and government officials: Ali Mamlouk, Abdel Salam Mahmoud and Jamil Hassan. The warrants bring charges including collusion in torture, forced disappearances, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Four days of hearings at the Paris Cour d'assises started on 21 May 2024, accusing the three men of involvement in the disappearance, torture and killing of two French citizens between 2013 and 2017. Hassan was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia on May 25.

United States

On 9 December 2024, after the fall of the Assad regime, the U.S. Department of Justice charged the 72-year-old Hassan and Abdul Salam Mahmoud, a brigadier general in SAFI, with conspiring to torture American and Syrian civilians at Mezzeh Prison between 2012 and 2019. The indictment was the first time the U.S. criminally charged top Syrian officials for human rights abuses during the Assad regime.

Personal life

He owned a house in an affluent area of central Damascus.

References

"Hassan, Jamil: Wanted by United States". Interpol.
(21 December 2024). "Syria: Inside the abandoned homes of Assad's enforcers".
"First circle".
(19 January 2012). "COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 36/2012 of 18 January 2012 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Syria and repealing Regulation (EU) No 442/2011". [[Official Journal of the European Union]].
(29 June 2011). "Treasury Sanctions Syrian, Iranian Security Forces for Involvement in Syrian Crackdown".
Fisk, Robert. (27 November 2016). "Tougher tactics would have ended Syrian war, claims the country's top intelligence general".
(8 June 2018). "Germany Takes Aim at Assad's Torture Boss".
Jarry, Emmanuel. (5 November 2018). "France issues arrest warrants for senior Syrian officials".
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Ayad, Christophe. (25 May 2024). "Torture in Syria: Paris court sentences three senior officials from Assad's regime to life imprisonment".
(24 May 2024). "French court sentences 3 Syrian officials to life in prison in absentia for war crimes".
Singh, Kanishka. (9 December 2024). "Two former Syrian intelligence officials face US war crimes charges".
(9 December 2024). "Syrian Military Officials Charged With War Crimes as Government Falls".
(9 December 2024). "Criminal Charges Unsealed Against Two Former High-Ranking Syrian Government Intelligence Officials for War Crimes against Americans and Other Civilians".

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