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Nizar Skeif told The Associated Press on Tuesday that “this ruling has no legal value if there is a self-respecting justice.”

A writer and Arabic teacher from an old Aleppo trading family, Mr. Skeif became one of the most outspoken civilian leaders opposed to President Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad, who was president before him.

Mr. Skeif’s baby son was asphyxiated by the dust of a bombardment.

Many who went over to the government side were arrested, and others who chose to stay in their homes were killed by the pro-government militias who took control after the evacuation, Mr. Skeif said.

Nizar Skeif told The Associated Press that targeting the Justice Palace aimed to “undermine the Syrians’ morale and stir anarchy and terror.”