Oscar-Nominated Director Feras Fayyad On The Fall Of Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad, The Man Who Ordered His Imprisonment And Torture

Syria’s revolution has betrayed its promise

Syria’s new government promised liberty after Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Instead, massacres go unanswered, sectarianism deepens, and tyranny wears a new face.

Oscar-Nominated Director Feras Fayyad On The Fall Of Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad, The Man Who Ordered His Imprisonment And Torture

EXCLUSIVE: Through a popular uprising and a long and hideous civil war, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime tottered at times, but held on, propped up by allies Russia and Iran. But filmmaker Feras Fayyad, who endured torture in Assad’s prisons, never gave up the certainty that one day the dictator would be ousted. “I believed in that,” he tells Deadline. “The world has been through so many times of rising dictatorship and genocide, but …

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