Mustafa Omar Abdi Malik was finally released without charge on 31 May. Four other men (Muhammad Isma’il al-Daj, Muhammad Anis al-Turk, ‘Abd al Rahman al-Sulti and Wissam al-Ghorani are held incommunicado in Sednaya prison, on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus. They are believed to have been tortured.