12 Years Missing in Syria’s War—A Father’s Desperate Search | WSJ

Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship fell after 50 years of rule in Syria in December 2024, throwing Syria into chaos. After decades of repression was lifted, the regime’s prisons were suddenly opened.

One Syrian man has held out hope of finding his son after seeing videos that appeared to show him fleeing Saydnaya prison outside of Damascus after the fall of Assad’s regime. The Journal joins Suleyman al-Youssef in his search for more clues about his son’s fate.

Chapters:
0:00 Missing prisoners after Assad’s fall
1:23 Clips of Shadi
3:06 Shadi’s background
4:42 Shadi’s arrest under Assad’s rule
6:02 Families searching for loved one’s
8:12 Tracking down the man in the clips

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