Syria: life after prison

叙利亚:出狱后的生活

Newshour

2024-12-13

47 分钟
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After Assad has fallen, there are still many families searching for their loved ones in hospitals and morgues around the country. Tens of thousands of people were imprisoned under Assad's regime. Now that many have been freed, they must learn to survive after the trauma of torture and years of detainment. We speak to a specialist psychologist, working with the survivors of torture. Also on the programme: a breakthrough discovery finds that vaccines could be administered using a topical cream; and British military veterans who were sacked or imprisoned because of their sexuality can now claim compensation, we speak to a veteran who was outed by a British tabloid. Image: Inside the Sednaya prison in Damascus, Syria Credit: Antonio Pedro Santos, EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock
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  • And we're going to begin in Syria, because amid all the celebrations at the fall of the Assad regime and the joy of those who've now escaped the horrors of his prisons, there is, of course, much grief and sadness for the families who've been unable to find their missing fathers and sons and those who found only their dead bodies.

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  • We're at a hospital where bodies, the dead bodies that were found in Syednea Prison, a lot of them have been brought.

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