(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Syria's official news agency SANA said on Wednesday that "Sedki al-Maket, who was arrested in August 1985 for resisting the "Israeli" occupation of the Golan Heights, was released and had returned to his home town on the strategic plateau."
Al-Maket was jailed by an "Israeli" military court for 27 years.
Maket, 45, comes from Majdal Shams, the largest town on the Golan Heights, which "Israel" captured from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and unilaterally annexed in 1981.
The vast majority of its 18,000 Syrian inhabitants, mostly Druze, who remained from the Golan's original population of 150,000, have refused to take "Israeli" citizenship.
Damascus demands a total "Israeli" withdrawal from the Golan.
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