DAMASCUS – The horrific stories are emerging from the prisoners released from Syrian jails after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s government and the victory of the rebels.
The international media reported that after the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government and the rebels’ control over the capital Damascus and other parts of Syria, thousands of people freed from prisons are sharing their accounts of their days in captivity.
A video said that went viral on social media, in which a former prisoner revealed, “I had no name in prison, just a number. The Bashar government arrested me and put me in prison, and my family thought I had died,”.
The young man explained that “many others were also kept in prison without informing their families, and they spent years there,”.
The latest reports suggested that some other individuals who were freed from prison stated that they were scheduled to be executed earlier that day, but now they are free.
One person said, “54 of us including myself were supposed to be executed 30 minutes ago, but now we are free. Now we are standing in the heart of Damascus,”.
Another prisoner Ali Hassan was freed from prison after 39 years. He was arrested by Syrian soldiers in 1986 at a checkpoint in northern Lebanon.
At that time, Ali was 18 years old and a university student. Since his arrest, there had been no trace of him.
