On the other hand, Syria under the Assad family remains tightly controlled.

另一方面，叙利亚还处在阿萨德家族严密控制之中。

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He has been publicly questioned for vacationing with the Assad family last year.

他还被公众质问去年和阿萨德家族一起休假的事情。

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No Syrian city bears more scars from four decades of rule by the Assad family than Hama.

在叙利亚，哈马市是饱受阿萨德家族近四十年的统治之苦最为严重的一个城市。

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Syria has long had a single-party system led by the Ba'ath party of the Assad family.

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All three companies are "closely linked to the Assad family, " U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague said.

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Rifaat insisted that the Assad family was still "pretty much accepted by the Syrian people".

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Both are dominated by the Sunni elite and the Alawite minority, to which the Assad family belongs.

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