One summer’s evening last year Ahmed was at home in Cyprus with his wife Nadia and their young children when he received the call that would turn his life upside down. “It was his mother calling from Syria,” Nadia recalls. “She told him there was a lull in the bombing of their town and that they were leaving. They needed help.” The call set in motion a chain of events that would land Ahmed where he is today: locked in a Hungarian jail charged with an “act of terror”.
