Detained Syrian Activist Abused By French Police, Say Family and Attorney Posted by John Adalah | Mar 6, 2021 | Syrian activist and former spokesman for anti-Assad faction Jaish al-Islam, Majdi Nema, during his university studies in Turkey The family and lawyer of a detained Syrian activist claim that he has been abused in a French prison. Majdi Nema, the former spokesman of the anti-Assad military faction Jaish al-Islam, was arrested in the early morning of January 29, 2020, while he was on a three-month visa for postgraduate study in Marseille under the European Union’s Erasmus program. He was accused by local authorities of “war crimes”, “torture” and “complicity in enforced disappearances”.