Reports of Escape
Following his absence at a high-level meeting in July 2012, Sharaa was rumored to either be under house-arrest, or to have fled to Jordan. These reports came amidst a wave of Fugitives from the Assad government after an increase in violence in the Syrian civil war. However, these reports were proven to be false, since Sharaa represented Bashar al-Assad at the funerals of three senior officials assassinated on 18 July 2012 in Damascus.
In mid-August the spokesperson of the Free Syrian Army announced that al-Sharaa had fled to Jordan. A spokesman for al-Sharaa denied this report to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). On 26 August 2012, al-Sharaa appeared in public in Syria for a second time, disproving false reports that he had fled to Jordan.
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