This week Locked Up Abroad spotlights freelance photographer Matthew B. Schrier’s remarkable escape from Al Qaeda. Schrier was working in Syria near the Turkish border in December 2012 when a Jeep cut his party off on the road and three men leapt out. They captured him and placed him in the back of their 4×4 at gun point. The group turned out to be Jabhat al-Nursa, who are an affiliate of Al-Qaeda in Syria. Schrier was moved about various prisons in Aleppo over the next few months and decided to convert to Islam as a way of getting better treatment. During...read more