CNN —Majd Kamalmaz, an American man detained in Syria more than seven years ago, has died, according to a statement from the Bring Our Families Home Campaign (BoFH).
The visit was held in an effort to secure the release of American prisoners believed to be held by the Syrian government.
A vigil is held outside of the White House on February 17 to mark three years since Majd Kamalmaz's detention in Syria.
family photo“We do feel invisible,” said Maryam Kamalmaz, speaking on the first-ever Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day about her father’s disappearance earlier this year.
“For the last seven years, we have been struggling to come to grips with my father’s absence,” Maryam Kamalmaz said in the statement announcing her father’s death.
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