The US confirms the death of an American therapist after spending seven years in a Syrian prison

June 12. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The United States Department of State confirmed this Thursday the death of the American therapist Majd Kamalmaz after spending seven years in a Syrian prison and whose death was already announced by the association Bring Our Families Home, BOFH, by its acronym in English) in mid-May.

“Today we pay tribute to Majd Kamalmaz, the American who died while held in Syria. He traveled to the region to provide medical services to people traumatized by the Syrian civil war and was last seen at a Syrian government checkpoint in 2017. The Syrian Government must respond for what happened,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.

Afterwards, he expressed his support to the therapist’s family and to all those who still “remain missing or unjustly detained” in Syria, for whom he promised to “continue fighting.”

On May 18, BOFH published a statement on its X social network account in which it reported his death, highlighting that he was a “kind, loving and attentive” person and that he only intended to “help people recover from adverse events.

“Maid was an award-winning American therapist who was unjustly detained by the Syrian government on February 15, 2017. Tragically, she did not survive the brutal prison conditions, enduring seven long years without a trial or any form of communication with her family.” , reads the organization’s letter.