Power of attorney: The Assad regime’s hidden weapon to deprive displaced Syrians of their property rights
June 1, 2021
Children ride bicycles on a street surrounded by destroyed buildings in the Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees, south of Damascus, 1/11/2021 (AFP)
AMMAN In early May, Abu Ahmad’s hopes of disposing of his properties in Syria’s central city of Homs were dashed. The Syrian Ministry of Interior responded with rejection to his application for power of attorney, submitted through the Syrian consulate in Istanbul, to appoint a relative to manage his properties that were “worth about $10 million before the Syrian revolution broke out,” he told