{
    "byline": "By Heidi Pett",
    "charset": "UTF-8",
    "dir": null,
    "excerpt": "Qatana, Syria \u2013 In the living room of his home, Ahmed explains in a low voice how he was beaten and tortured in an Israeli prison after he was arrested at a checkpoint the Israeli military had set up on the street in his village in Syria.",
    "lang": null,
    "length": 9925,
    "publishedTime": null,
    "siteName": null,
    "title": "Israeli raids and arrests in southern Syria push population to the brink"
}