Ghazi Mohamed al-Mohamed, a former detainee in a Damascus prison, poses for a picture with his mother at their home in Sarmada, in the northern Syrian Idlib province, on December 14, 2024. For five and a half months Ghazi languished in jail, losing 40 kilos and all the while under the threat of imminent execution. He was seized on a brief business trip to Damascus, and plunged into the living hell of prison existence under the rule of now deposed president Bashar al-Assad. (Photo by OZAN KOSE / AFP) (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)