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A US citizen found walking near Damascus after months in Syrian prison.

12 Desember 2024   22:24 Diperbarui: 12 Desember 2024   22:24 13
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A US citizen who was jailed in a Syrian prison for months after entering the country on foot has reportedly been rescued by men with hammers when rebels overturned Bashar al-Assad's administration.   

The guy, later named as Travis Timmerman by the BBC's US news partner CBS, was discovered by people near Damascus.  

Social media   footage showed him lying on a sofa while people talking with local reporters. 

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Mr Timmerman claimed he was arrested upon entering the country seven months ago.     He was reported missing in May and last seen in Budapest, Hungary, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol and Hungarian authorities.    

On  Monday, a day after rebels took control of Damascus and deposed Assad, Mr Timmerman said that two men armed with hammers forced down his prison cell door.    

 It was "busted down, it woke me up," he said.         "I expected more active combat as the guards were still present... There was no opposition or fighting until we got out.         The 30-year-old said he fled prison with a large group of individuals and was trying to get to Jordan.      

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He  admitted that he "had a few moments of fear" when he fled the prison, but that he had afterwards become more concerned with finding somewhere to sleep. He informed reporters that        locals        had responded favorably to his appeals for food and aid        were mostly coming to me," 

Mr Timmerman recalled. Since Assad's demise over the weekend, thousands of detainees have been released.         Men, women, and even children have been seen exiting from cramped windowless cages, frequently disoriented and uninformed of what was going on         outside having reasonably good care, telling CBS, "I'm doing fine. 

I've been fed and hydrated, so I'm feeling OK. He also stated that          he          used a cell phone while in custody and communicated with his family three weeks ago          and          had "          been reading          the          scriptures a lot.         

"   Tuesday, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller stated that the United States had requested assistance from Syria's major rebel organization, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), in locating and freeing US journalist Austin            Tice, a freelance journalist, is believed to have been kidnapped near Damascus on August 14 , 2012, while reporting on the country's civil war. 

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He was last seen in a video, blindfolded and in apparent misery, broadcast online weeks after his          government          dismissed            the United States, according to Mr. Tice is still alive, but they need to locate his whereabouts.          

The   Assad government was known for its brutal prisons, with the UK-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claiming that around 60,000 people were tortured and killed in institutions operated by the overthrown president.           

"The victorious opposition forces have stated that they intend to shut Assad's prisons and seek down individuals responsible for restraining killings and            torture that we can achieve justice," said rebel leader Ahmed. al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani. 

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