{"id":24049,"date":"2018-12-02T19:22:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T19:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24049"},"modified":"2018-12-02T19:22:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T19:22:49","slug":"argentinian-woman-leaves-syria-after-two-year-kidnap-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24049","title":{"rendered":"Argentinian woman leaves Syria after two year \u2018kidnap\u2019 ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1414466\/middle-east\" readability=\"54\">\n<p>\nBAB AL-HAWA: A 54-year-old Argentinian woman who was lured into war-wracked Syria two years ago on a marriage promise was finally on her way home on Saturday, a Syrian rebel official said.<br \/>History teacher Nancy Roxana Papa had accepted the invitation of a Syrian man she had met online three years earlier and traveled to Turkey in 2016, before entering Syria.<br \/>\u201cShe returned to Turkey on Saturday after the required legal documents&#8230; were completed\u201d for her entry into Turkish territory, said Bassam Sahiouni, an official from the local rebel authority in Idlib province.<br \/>On October 30, the \u201cSalvation Government\u201d \u2014 set up in rebel-held Idlib by the Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) jihadist group \u2014 handed Papa over to the Humanitarian Relief Foundation, a Turkish non-governmental organization, at the Bab Al-Hawa border post.<br \/>She then had to remain in Syria for over a month to await completion of administrative and legal procedures for her repatriation.<br \/>The Argentinian teacher had appeared on October 30 at a news conference organized by HTS at the border, where she thanked her country\u2019s diplomatic services, the Turkish authorities and the \u201cSalvation Government.\u201d<br \/>\u201cYou saved my life,\u201d she said that day, drying her tears after Sahiouni explained the circumstances of her misadventure.<br \/>Sahiouni had given an account of the teacher\u2019s apparent ordeal at the news conference.<br \/>She met the man posing as her future husband in a hotel in Turkey and \u201che told her they would go to Syria to greet his parents,\u201d the rebel official said.<br \/>She entered Syria illegally in 2016 and was immediately kidnapped by a gang that was waiting for her on the other side of the border and contacted her daughter to demand a ransom, Sahiouni said.<br \/>He added that she managed to escape from her captors after a year and survived in the war-torn area by staying with residents and moving from home to home.<br \/>The \u201cSalvation Government\u201d sought to address the case earlier this year and tried without success to contact Argentina\u2019s foreign ministry, before the Humanitarian Relief Foundation eventually dealt with her situation, Sahiouni said.<br \/>Last year, HTS reunited a Belgian girl with her mother, after the death of the four-year-old\u2019s father, a radicalized criminal who had entered Syria with the child in May 2017.<br \/>In February 2018, the same authorities handed over to Turkish officials two Canadian nationals who were held for several weeks after entering Syria for obscure family reasons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAB AL-HAWA: A 54-year-old Argentinian woman who was lured into war-wracked Syria two years ago on a marriage promise was finally on her way home on Saturday, a Syrian rebel official said.History teacher Nancy Roxana Papa had accepted the invitation of a Syrian man she had met online three years earlier and traveled to Turkey&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}