Jordanian man returns home after 38 years in Syria's prisons
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Amman: A Jordanian man has returned to his home country after spending 38 years in Syrian jails, an official said on Tuesday, after the fall of presid...
Amman: A Jordanian man has returned to his home country after spending 38 years in Syrian jails, an official said on Tuesday, after the fall of president Bashar al-Assad ended an agonising wait for his family.
The man, named as Osama Bashir Hassan al-Bataynah, was found in Syria "unconscious and suffering from memory loss", Jordanian Foreign Ministry Soufian al-Kodat told AFP.
Kodat said the man's relatives reported his disappearance in 1986, when he was just 18, and that he had been in jail ever since.
"He was transferred from Damascus to the Jaber border crossing (with Jordan) where he was handed over to border guards," added Kodat, saying the man had been reunited with his family on Tuesday morning.
The rebels who swept Assad from power on Sunday also opened the prisons and released thousands of detainees.
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