Lebanese Claude Leshaa Al-Khoury, lacking for 4 many years, has been discovered alive in a Syrian hospital after enduring years of captivity in Sednaya Jail. Al-Khoury was kidnapped by the Syrian regime 40 years in the past, throughout a interval of widespread abductions in Lebanon.
Within the present photograph, it seems he misplaced his eye and is extraordinarily malnourished. The vast majority of prisoners taken to Sednaya don’t make it out alive.
His launch got here after opposition forces took management of elements of Syria and opened the doorways to long-shuttered prisons, shedding mild on the destiny of numerous lacking individuals. Al-Khoury’s survival presents hope for households nonetheless looking for their family members, but in addition highlights the harrowing realities of detention below the Assad regime.
As much as 10,000 Lebanese are nonetheless lacking believed to have been taken by the Assad regime. Many have been youngsters or of their 20s and opposed the Syrian occupation.
