• September 25.2008

The longest-serving prisoner is Syrian

Posted by Bertrand Pecquerie on July 5, 2004 at 1:08 PM

Farhan el-Zoghbi has been in jail since 1970! And it happens in Syria... His wife, Sabah el-Turkmani, told Elaph magazine (in Arabic) that she hoped he would be liberated in the coming months by Syrian president Bachir El Assad. But who knows -- it is possible that there is an even longer-serving prisoning in China!

Source: Courrier International

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