Amman:
A Jordanian man has returned to his residence nation after spending 38 years in Syrian jails, an official mentioned on Tuesday, after the autumn of president Bashar al-Assad ended an agonising await his household.
The person, named as Osama Bashir Hassan al-Bataynah, was present in Syria “unconscious and affected by reminiscence loss”, Jordanian International Ministry Soufian al-Kodat advised AFP.
Kodat mentioned the person’s family members reported his disappearance in 1986, when he was simply 18, and that he had been in jail ever since.
“He was transferred from Damascus to the Jaber border crossing (with Jordan) the place he was handed over to frame guards,” added Kodat, saying the person had been reunited together with his household on Tuesday morning.
The rebels who swept Assad from energy on Sunday additionally opened the prisons and launched hundreds of detainees.
Civil society teams had lengthy accused Assad of presiding over a brutal regime of arbitrary arrests, torture and homicide in prisons.
Many foreigners had been being held, together with Suheil Hamawi from Lebanon who returned to his nation on Monday after being locked up for 33 years.
The Arab Group for Human Rights in Jordan mentioned Tuesday there have been nonetheless 236 Jordanians detained in Syria.
Amnesty Worldwide has documented hundreds of killings at Saydnaya jail, whose title has grow to be synonymous with the worst atrocities of Assad’s rule, and dubbed it a “human slaughterhouse”.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimated in 2022 that greater than 100,000 folks had died within the jails for the reason that begin of an rebellion in 2011 that led to the civil warfare.
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