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Dr Abbas Khan

His story
Dr Abbas Khan was an orthopaedic surgeon from London He travelled to Aleppo, Syria, to help victims of hospital bombings The 32-year-old was being held in custody in Syria when he died The Syrian regime claim he took his own life, but his family suspect murder His brother Shahnawaz Khan described writing his eulogy as 'morbid'



A British doctor who disappeared a year ago on a humanitarian mission to Syria has been tortured in a notorious military prison - and was only found after his mother spent months in the war-torn country trying to locate him. Dr Abbas Khan, 31, an orthopaedic surgeon, was systematically beaten by interrogators and held for eight months in darkness in an underground cell. At one point his weight dropped to just under five stone. Married with two young children – six year-old son Abdullah and daughter Rurayya, seven – he was arrested on November 22 after crossing the Syrian border without a visa and treating wounded civilians in a field hospital in a rebel-held district of Aleppo. For months his fate remained unclear, his plight seemingly forgotten, but his mother succeeded where diplomats and politicians failed, and managed to track him down after travelling to Damascus alone. Speaking from the Syrian capital on her mobile phone, Fatima Khan said: ‘He was like a skeleton and could barely walk. ‘He told me that he had been through eight months of hell and at times had simply wanted to die. He was getting trouble from both sides. 'As well as the guards, other prisoners turned on him just because he is British. He told them that he was there to help their mothers and children.’ Mrs Khan, 57, from Mitcham, South-West London, arrived in Damascus in July and has remained there, on her own, ever since, vowing not to return to Britain until her son is released.

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