My Detention in a Syrian Jail
In 2013, Wall Street Journal reporter Sam Dagher was arrested by a pro-Assad militia and accused of being an American spy.
Being arrested by the Assad regime and disappearing in one of its many secret prisons was a constant fear during my time inside Syria as a reporter, from October 2012 to August 2014. I was in the country legally, but that didn’t rule out the possibility that the people I was interviewing or those helping me do my job could be arrested. It turns out that it didn’t protect me either.