This time he was there by choice. Mohammed Darwish was back in a jail that was run by Syria’s feared intelligence services — and Bashar al-Assad was no longer president.Cell number nine reeks of putrefaction. It is an underground windowless room with blackened dripping walls where the 34-year-old journalist was held with around 100 others.Darwish was detained for months by one of the most feared branches of the former government’s many-tentacled intelligence services…
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