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Immediately after  he  took office a reform movement made cautious advances during the  Damascus  Spring which led al-Assad to shut down Mezzeh prison and release hundreds of political prisoners .
 employee of: he, Damascus
Given a phrase that describes the relationship between two words, extract the words and the lexical relationship between them. The output format should be "relation1: word1, word2; relation2: word3, word4". 
Option: cities of residence, top members employees, members, alternate names, origin, state or provinces of residence, title of person, spouse, city of headquarters, NA, founded by, state or province of headquarters, employee of, countries of residence, country of birth, founded, subsidiaries, country of headquarters 
Text: {0} 
Answer:
 employee of: he, Damascus