LOS ANGELES (CN) — A former inmate at the Adra Prison near Damascus testified on Tuesday that the general in charge of the prison ordered him to poison a political dissident who was housed in the hospital wing and who had smuggled a human rights pamphlet out of the facility.
Khaled Abdul Malek was the first witness to testify at the trial of former Syrian government official Samir Ousman Alsheikh in Los Angeles.
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