Mansour Omari had been held nearly a year in an underground Syrian prison, tortured and starved, when his name was called by the guards. He was going to be released. The other prisoners hugged him and ...

It was not a surprise in February 2012 when the authorities came for Mansour Omari. “We have a saying in Syria: ‘He disappeared beyond the sun,’ ” said Omari during a recent visit to Washington. “It ...

Mansour Omari, a Syrian journalist in his mid-thirties with wavy hair and sideburns, spent a year documenting the names of detainees who disappeared after the inspiring days of the Arab Spring ...