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Outlook: How I brought my jailer to justice

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Amer Matar

09/09/2023 GMT

How I brought my jailer to justice

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Chance brought Syrian journalist Amer Matar face-to-face with his former captor

Years after being imprisoned in Syria, journalist Amer Matar came face-to-face with his former captor.

At the start of the Syrian uprising, the journalist and human rights activist Amer Matar was arrested. He was held at a notorious unit of Syria’s intelligence directorate and interrogated by an officer called Anwar Raslan. Amer survived his time in prison and, years later, a series of extraordinary coincidences would bring the two men together again. This time their meeting took place in a German court, with Raslan in the dock and Amer fighting for justice.  (A longer version of this interview was first broadcast in June 2022.)

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