Fifty-two inmates at a prison in the northeastern Congo city of Bunia have starved to death this year because of insufficient government funding, the United Nations and local authorities said.

“What endeared him [Barghouti] to Palestinians was his iron refusal to bend, either to the Israelis or to Yassir Arafat’s famously corrupt PA,” said Neil Macdonald, who met Mr. Barghouti dozens of times when he was CBC-TV’s Middle East correspondent from 1998 to 2003.

Former prisoner Mutassim Abdulsatir gave Margaret Brennan a tour of the notorious Sednaya prison where Syrians were tortured, beaten, and killed during the reign of dictator Bashar al-Assad.