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March 14, 2021 Britain's Metropolitan Police reportedly opened a war crimes investigation into Asma Assad, the wife of Syrian President Bashir, according to Sky News.
The investigation began after Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers, a legal group specializing in cross-border litigation and human rights, presented "two confidential documents and evidence" on Bashar Assad's 45-year-old wife to the Metropolitan Police's War Crimes Unit.
The group said it had spent "months" investigating allegations that Asma had "supported and encouraged terrorism" in Syria.
According to Guernica 37, Assad's wife is part of a group of "influential personalities" who used a "propaganda" and "disinformation" campaign of the type used "by the Syrian regime to deny the accusations of genocide".
The Metropolitan Police did not confirm the ongoing investigation but limited itself to reporting to Skynews that its War Crimes Unit received a "report on the conflict in Syria on 31 July.
Sunni, unlike her Alawite husband, Asma Assad was born and raised in London, where she worked as an investment banker for JPMorgan, and has dual citizenship, Syrian and British.
The opening of the investigation coincides with the ten years since the beginning of the civil war in Syria, which has so far caused almost 400,000 deaths and 6.5 million displaced.