'My friend had his head cut off in front of his mother': Syrian man who fled with family to Cork recalls time in regime prison

Mutaz Wahbi said that he was jailed for refusing to join Assad’s army. Picture: Jim Coughlan

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Bruised and badly beaten, shivering and starving, Mutaz Wahbi thought he would die in prison under the Assad regime in Syria.