From Reuters.

Reuters journalist Suleiman al-Khalidi (https://www.reuters.com/authors/suleiman-al-khalidi/) was arrested by Syrian security police in 2011 during an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Hear what al-Khalidi witnessed back then and what it was like to see prisoners freed after Assad’s downfall. (https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/bewildered-elated-prisoners-pour-out-assads-jails-flung-open-2024-12-08/)

You can read Suleiman’s account of his detention from 2011 here (https://www.reuters.com/article/world/witness-shattered-humanity-inside-syrias-security-apparatus-idUSTRE74P2VD/) .

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