Mazzeh air base

Former prisoner revisits Syrian air base ordeal

On Wednesday, 40-year-old father-of-three Riad Hallak was combing through the shattered ruins of a lecture theater that he said once held 225 detainees
During the early days of Syria’s 13-year civil war, Hallak was arrested in 2012 while attending a funeral for protesters shot dead by government security forces

By AFP · 11 December 2024