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Syrian embassy returns passport seized decades ago

Al Jazeera reports that Syria’s embassy in Berlin returned a citizen’s passport, seized by the former Assad government 43 years earlier.

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Adrian Cole
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Syria’s embassy in Berlin has returned a citizen’s passport that the former Assad government seized 43 years ago, according to Al Jazeera.

The report does not identify the passport holder or specify when the return took place.

It also provides no details about the circumstances of the seizure. The account has not been independently corroborated in the supplied material.

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