The spokesman of the Kremlin has said that the British-born wife of the ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad does not want a divorce.
According to Turkish media reports, Asma al-Assad wants to end her marriage and leave Russia, where she and her husband were given asylum after the rebel coalition overthrew the former president’s government and Damascus. took control.
Asked about the reports in a news conference call, Dmitry Peskov said, “No, they don’t correspond to reality.”
He also denied reports that Assad has been confined to Moscow and his real estate assets have been frozen.
Russia was a staunch ally of the Assad regime and offered military support during the civil war.
But reports in Turkish media on Sunday said Assad was living under strict restrictions in the Russian capital, and that Syria’s former first lady had filed for divorce and wanted to return to London. were
Mrs Assad is a dual Syrian-British citizen, but Britain’s foreign secretary has previously said she will not be allowed to return to the UK.
Speaking in Parliament earlier this month, David Lemmy said: “I want it confirmed that he is a sanctioned person and that he is not welcome in Britain.”
He added that he would “do everything in my power” to ensure that no member of the Assad family “finds a place in Britain”.
In a statement attributed to Bashar al-Assad last week, he said he had never intended to flee Syria, but he Airlifted from a Russian military base at Moscow’s request..
Asma al-Assad, 49, was born in Britain to Syrian parents in 1975 and grew up in Acton, west London.
She moved to Syria in 2000 at the age of 25 and married her husband a few months after he succeeded her father as president.
During her 24 years as Syria’s first lady, Mrs. Assad was a subject of curiosity in the Western media.
A controversial 2011 Vogue profile called her “a rose in the desert” and described her as “one of the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies”. The article has since been removed from the Vogue website.
Just a month later, Mrs Assad was criticized for remaining silent while her husband tortured pro-democracy campaigners at the start of Syria’s civil war.
The conflict claimed nearly half a million lives, with her husband accused of using chemical weapons against civilians.
In 2016, Mrs Assad told Russian state-backed television that she had rejected a deal to offer safe passage from the war-torn country. To stand by her husband.
She announced that she was happening. Treatment for breast cancer in 2018 and said she has made a full recovery after a year.
The office of then-President Assad announced that he had been diagnosed with leukemia and had begun treatment for the disease in May of that year.
A statement said she would “temporarily withdraw” from public engagements.