US EditionExiled Syrian Opens up About Death-Defying Smuggling Operation that Showed Proof of Assad's Cruelty
Ussama Uthman and his team smuggled over 53,000 photos documenting torture and starvation from Syrian prisons, fueling international sanctions and war crimes prosecutions.
- Code-Named Sami, a Syrian officer smuggled evidence of Assad's atrocities across rebel lines to an exile called Uthman.
- They uploaded 55 gigabytes of photos and documents dating from 2011-2014 to an overseas server, known as the Caesar Files.
- Once safely abroad, they published the material sparking widespread condemnation of Assad for torturing detainees.
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Exiled Syrian opens up about death-defying smuggling operation that showed proof of Assad’s cruelty
By SAM McNEIL, Associated Press He waited for his brother-in-law to cross the front line smuggling documents stolen from the Syrian dictatorship’s archives. Detection could mean dismemberment or death, but they were committed to exposing the industrial-scale violence used to keep President Bashar Assad in power. Ussama Uthman, now 59, was building a vast record of the brutality — photographs that showed Assad’s government was engaging in systema…
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Exiled Syrian opens up about death-defying smuggling operation that showed proof of Assad's cruelty
It’s been more than a decade since tens of thousands of photos started appearing online showing the broken bodies and torture sites under President Bashar Assad’s rule in Syria.
For 47 days Martin Lautwein experienced "the hell" - including waterboarding and electric shocks: The German was imprisoned and tortured in a Syrian prison in 2018. Now he returned to the place of horror for a ProSieben film with Thilo Mischke.
derwesten.de
thueringen24.deTogether with his friend Martin Lautwein, ProSieben reporter Thilo Mischke visits Syria. It became a return to hell.
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