As reported by “The Telegraph”, Asma al-Asad she is very sick. Due to leukemia the woman was placed away from other people to avoid infection. IN Moscow Asma was under the care of her father, Fawaza Akhrasa. The man is reportedly “devastated” by the deteriorating health situation of his daughter, sources in direct contact with the family said.
After the fall of his regime in SyriaBashar al-Assad and his wife asked for asylum in Moscow. Earlier, in May this year, the then authorities in Damascus announced that Asma had been diagnosed acute myeloid leukemiai.e. aggressive cancer diseasewhich concerns the hematopoietic system. It attacks the bone marrow, i.e. the tissue filling the bones, whose task is to produce red blood cells (erythrocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes) and platelets.
In the past, the woman was treated for breast cancerwhich she managed to defeat in August 2019. The sources cited by “The Telegraph” suggest that Asma's health condition is downright tragic. – He cannot be in the same room with anyone (due to her condition – ed.) – said one of the informants who had been in direct contact with the family representative in recent weeks.
“The Telegraph”: The health of Bashar al-Assad's wife is deteriorating
The editors assume that 49-year-old woman she flew to Moscow on treatment some time before The Kremlin convinced her husband to flee Syria because of the rebels' rapid advances. Asma's father, who is a cardiologist, took care of her for last half year – initially in United Arab Emiratesand later in the capital Russia.
Speculation about the woman's health emerged after reports that she was tired of the restrictions imposed on her in Moscow and was considering treatment in London and she wanted to divorce with Bashar. Although the Assads did not comment on the latter issue, the Kremlin eagerly denied it.
Recently a British politician Robert Jenrick declared that it would be “an affront to Assad's millions of victims if his wife returned to a life of luxury in… Great Britain“The woman has dual British-Syrian citizenship. Asma grew up in Acton, west London, with her father and mother Sahar – a former diplomat at the Syrian embassy. She also has two brothers who followed in their father's footsteps and also became doctors.
Asma al-Assad. Who is the wife of the deposed dictator of Syria?
Asma graduated in computer science from London King’s College and – before she started dating Bashar in 1992 – she was involved investment banking. At that time, it was not expected that Bashar would succeed his father.
Everything changed after his older brother Basil died in a car accident in 1996. In this situation, Bashar became the heir to the Syrian throne and then president in 2000. The couple's seemingly reformist and Western-friendly image crumbled under Bashar's brutal suppression pro-democracy protests in 2011plunging Syria into bloodshed civil war.
For her role in supporting her husband's actions, Asma was embraced sanctions. In December, the British Foreign Secretary announced that he could not imagine the woman's possible return to Great Britain. “I want it to be confirmed that he is a sanctioned person and is not welcome in the UK,” he said. David Lammyannouncing that he would do “everything in his power” to ensure that no member of the Assad family finds refuge in Islands.
Bashar and his wife have three children: Hafiza, Zeina and Karima. Extended family also joined them in Moscow. Hafiz was in the Russian capital even before his father's regime was overthrown. He studied mathematics at Moscow State University. At the end of November, he defended his doctoral thesis, written in Russian, focusing on algebraic number theory and the study of polynomials. In his final speech, he expressed gratitude to the “martyrs of his homeland”, especially those belonging to the Syrian army.