SYRIAN PRIME MINISTER DEFECTS

Syria's Prime Minister Riyad Hijab has
defected from President Bashar al-
Assad's administration and joined the
opposition to his rule, a spokesman said
on Monday in a statement broadcast on
Al Jazeera television.
"I announce today my defection from the
killing and terrorist regime and I announce that
I have joined the ranks of the freedom and
dignity revolution. I announce that I am from
today a soldier in this blessed revolution,"
Hijab said in a statement read in his name by
the spokesman.
The spokesman said Hijab was in a safe place.







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