"I never expected to get out alive one day, I had lost all hope," says Ibrahim Freihat from his hometown of Al-Yamoun in Jenin where he was reunited with his friends and family after spending 17 years in Syrian prisons, including the infamous Saydnaya prison. "I was at Saydnaya prison for a long time, two years and three or four months, and no one knew my fate, whether I was dead or alive," he says. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES