Assad-Era Political Prisoner Wants Justice

Assad-era political prisoner wants justice

SYRIAN fighter pilot Ragheed Tatari was 26 when he was arrested. Now 70, the country’s longest-serving political prisoner is finally free after Bashar al-Assad’s fall, seeking justice and accountability. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd

Assad’s Prisons and the Need for Justice

In dry hills half an hour’s drive outside Damascus, Sednaya Prison’s Red Building comes into view. A squat three stories covering a good deal of land, it imposes on our vision as we approach from below. (Two more floors are underground.) Repeated rings of barbed wire and minefields surround the main building. The Bashar al-Assad regime’s organized graffiti praising the leader and describing the (nonexistent) struggle against Israeli occupation s…

After Decades In Assad Jails, Political Prisoner Wants Justice

Syrian fighter pilot Ragheed Tatari was 26 when he was arrested. Now 70, the country's longest-serving political prisoner is finally free after Bashar al-Assad's fall, seeking justice and accountability.

After decades in Assad jails, political prisoner wants justice

Syrian fighter pilot Ragheed Tatari was 26 when he was arrested. Now 70, the country's longest-serving political prisoner is finally free after Bashar al-Assad's fall, seeking justice and accountability.Tatari, arrested in 1981 and sentenced to life behind bars, was among scores of prisoners who walked free when longtime ruler Assad was overthrown on December 8 in an Islamist-led offensive.