Wednesday, December 29, 2021

An American was locked up in Syria. A pact with a British inmate may have saved him

In his 20s, with the hopes of becoming a foreign correspondent, Kevin Dawes — now 39, at the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael, Calif. — traveled to Libya and then Syria where he was arrested, imprisoned and tortured.

Kevin Dawes describes how a fellow prisoner in Syria kept a promise that called attention to Dawes' detention. Now, five years after his release, Dawes is suing the Syrian regime.

(Image credit: Preston Gannaway for NPR)

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