How I brought my jailer to justice
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.)
Produced and presented by Emily Webb
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(Photo: Amer Matar. Credit: Courtesy of Amer Matar)
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