{"id":8023,"date":"2014-10-14T16:16:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/10\/14\/abbas-khan-inquest\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:47:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:47:01","slug":"abbas-khan-inquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/14\/abbas-khan-inquest\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbas Khan Inquest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The family of the late Dr. Abbas Khan made \u201csuperhuman\u201d efforts to free him from the Syrian prison where he was detained.<\/div>\n

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The 32-year-old Doctor from Streatham, South London was found dead in his cell days before his release date. Whilst Syrian officials claim he committed suicide, the UK Foreign Office stated he was \u201cin effect murdered\u201d.<\/div>\n

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His mother, Fatima Khan, was \u201cextraordinarily persistent\u201d in trying to free her son. Speaking to a court, Fatima states she went to Syria in July 2013 and visited a number of embassies and prisons to trace her son.<\/div>\n

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Some of the vehicles she travelled in even came under fire but she was undeterred, \u201cI felt scared, but my son was here so I had to be brave\u201d. After finding him in a Court of Terrorism she said, \u201cI hugged him. He was a skeleton. He was in tears. I said, ‘Look, mummy is here for you’. He said, ‘Sorry, I shouldn’t have come here, please take me home’.\u201d <\/div>\n

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The surgeon\u2019s feet were said to be burned and he was missing a finger nail. When questioned by his mother over these injuries he replied, \u201cThis is nothing, I have suffered more than this.\u201d<\/div>\n

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The conditions of the prison were \u201clike hell\u201d with mice, cockroaches and faeces on the floor. Khan claims he was beaten and interrogated by other inmates.<\/div>\n

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He was found \u201callegedly hanged\u201d in his cell, his family insist he was murdered despite the suicide claims. Fatima Khan recalls a Syrian she spoke to after her son\u2019s who told her, \u201cYes, we killed your son\u201d.<\/div>\n

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An inquest is now being held in the Royal Courts of Justice lasting for three weeks.<\/div>\n

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The issues to be discussed will include: Did Dr Khan take his own life, was he “forced in some way by his captors to take his own life against his will”, or was he “unlawfully killed” by his captors?<\/div>\n

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Mother Insists He Was Murdered The family of the late Dr. Abbas Khan made \u201csuperhuman\u201d efforts to free him from the Syrian prison where he was detained. \u00a0 The 32-year-old Doctor from Streatham, South London was found dead in his cell days before his release date. Whilst Syrian officials claim he committed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}