To the seriously ill wife of the former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would have been banned from returning to the UK to undergo treatment against cancer after the expiration of his passport. Asma al-Assad, 49, will not be able to return to her hometown of London without her official travel documents because she is said to be seriously ill with leukemia and has only a 50% chance of survival. All this is happening after her father, famed cardiologist Fawaz Akhras, leaves his Harley Street clinic, apparently in a bid to care for his daughter, who fled to Russia after the collapse of his brutal regime. husband.
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“She wants a divorce”
In recent days it has been said that Asma is considering divorcing Assad and wants to return to the UK to continue her cancer treatment. However, Whitehall sources have confirmed that Asma, who also holds Syrian nationality, no longer has valid UK travel documents after her passport expired in 2020. Even Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said that the government would not allow him to return to the country, as the decision “cannot be based solely on health reasons.” Earlier, Foreign Secretary David Lammy told MPs that Asma, born and raised in Acton, west London, “is not welcome here”. Asma became Syria's first lady in 2000, after marrying 59-year-old Assad in Syria, the same year he took control of the country following the death of her father, Hafez al-Assad, who died aged 69 years old.
The request
She applied to a Russian court for permission to leave Russia and travel to the UK; the request is currently being evaluated by the Russian authorities. Rumor has it that the deposed dictator and his family are under “severe restrictions” in Moscow: Assad is banned from leaving the city or engaging in political activities.
Assad's extended family is believed to own dozens of apartments in the Russian capital and, according to reports, Assad took with him to Moscow around 270 kilograms of gold and £1.6 billion when he fled Syria. But according to some unconfirmed rumors, his assets and money in the country have been frozen. After recovering from breast cancer in 2019, in May this year Asma was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive cancer of the bone marrow and blood. Last week, the Telegraph reported that she had a 50% chance of survival and was being kept in isolation to avoid catching infection from others. “Asma is dying,” a source close to the Akhras family told the newspaper. “She can’t be in the same room with anyone.” Another source said: “When leukemia comes back, it's fierce. The last few weeks it's been 50-50.”
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