Dalal Mawad
FILE - In this July 9, 2012 file photo, Michel Kilo, a Syrian opposition leader and writer, speaks to the media after a meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister, in Moscow, Russia. Kilo, a prominent exiled Syrian opposition figure died Monday, April 19, 2021, of complications from COVID-19 in a hospital in Paris where he lived. Kilo was 81. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File) April 19, 2021 - 8:54 AM
PARIS - Michel Kilo, an exiled veteran Syrian opposition figure, died Monday of complications from COVID-19 in a hospital in Paris where he lived, family and friends said. He was 81.
Kilo spent time in prison during the rule of late Syrian President Hafez Assad in the early 1980s and more recently from 2006-2009 under his son, current President Bashar Assad.