
Ragheed al-Tatari, the face of freedom in Syria after 43 years in Assad’s prisons
The lock on his cell in the prison in the Syrian city of Tartus creaked. “You’re free,” they told him. After 43 years and 15 days in prison, pilot Ragheed al-Tatari was walking in the sunshine as a free man, at the age of 70, having been Syria’s longest- …