Proposed handover of Bashar al-Assad to Syria

The Syrian government has requested that Russiahandover former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to Syria on multiple occasions so that he can be tried for crimes against humanity and potentially other charges stemming mainly from his violent crackdown on the Syrian revolution. Bashar al-Assad served as President of Syria until his flight to Russia during the fall of the Assad regime where he was granted asylum by the Russian government. Discussions over the handover of al-Assad are a recurring dispute between Syria and Russia, who were closely aligned under the leadership of al-Assad.