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Bewildered, elated detainees put out as Assad's jails flung open
Confused and elated prisoners put out of Syrian jails on Sunday, shouting with pleasure as they emerged from among the world's most infamous detention systems and walked to liberty following the collapse of Bashar alAssad's. federal government. All throughout Syria, families wept as they were reunited with. children, siblings, spouses and moms and dads who disappeared years earlier. into the impregnable gulag of the Assad dynasty's five-decade. reign. Recently freed prisoners went through the Damascus streets. holding up the fingers of both hands to show how several years they. had actually remained in jail, asking passers-by what had occurred, not....