A Canadian citizen held by the Syrian government since last year was released in...
BEIRUT - A Canadian citizen held by the Syrian government since last year was released in Lebanon on Friday and broke down in tears at a news conference, saying he thought he would be held forever.
“I didn’t know if anyone knew if I was alive,” said Kristian Lee Baxter, struggling to speak as he choked back tears while sitting alongside Canada’s ambassador to Lebanon and the Lebanese security chief in Beirut. Baxter thanked both the Canadian embassy and the Lebanese authorities for helping him get out of Syria. Lamoureux thanked Lebanese security chief Abbas Ibrahim, who last month mediated the release of a U.S. citizen in Syria.“I thought I would be there forever,” Baxter said.It was unclear what Baxter was doing in Syria at the time of his detention. Sam Goodwin, the U.S. citizen freed last month, had been traveling in Syria without a visa.
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