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World Service,26 Feb 2014,11 mins

Syria and Ethiopia

From Our Own Correspondent

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An estimated 200,000 men and women are being held in detention centres in war-torn Syria. Lyse Doucet meets two men with very different experiences of this system - one is a lawyer representing the detained, the other is an interrogator in a government-controlled prison. Are their hopes for Syria really so different? London has its urban foxes, Delhi has monkeys, but the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa has a far more pernicious pest - the urban hyena. Martin Fletcher finds out about the threat they pose to the city's residents, and what can be done to contain them. Presenter: Pascale Harter Producer: Ben Weisz Photo: A Syrian prisoner gives his finger print on his release papers at Damascus central police station on September 1, 2012. Photo credit: JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images

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