Batebi escaped while he was let out to get medical treatment. He’s done this before, but he never left the country.
A year or more ago he was supposedly diagnosed with MS. I don’t know if that’s true or not. He has recently talked about being beaten on the right side of his head and he suffers chronic headaches as a result.
I haven’t seen any pictures of him in a year or 2. But in those pictures he certainly had changed from the handsome young man in the posters and he had difficulty walking.
In other words, they beat the %$#@ out of him. Lovely. At least he is free and able to tell more people about what he has suffered.