UK trainee surgeon was “unlawfully killed” in Syria, inquest rules

A UK trainee orthopaedic surgeon who died in a Syrian prison was unlawfully killed, an inquest jury in London has ruled.

Abbas Khan, 32, a Muslim of Indian origin from south London, was detained in Syria two years ago[1] and found dead in a prison cell in Damascus last December.[2] The Syrian authorities said that he had committed suicide and was found hanging in his cell, but his family claimed that …