Syrian civilians battle for accountability in court docket, utilizing smuggled images to reveal authorities atrocities.
About 27,000 images of useless and tortured civilian detainees have been smuggled out of secret Syrian authorities archives by a army defector codenamed “Caesar” and made public in 2014. They have been offered to the United Nations as proof of the Bashar al-Assad regime’s killing of 11,000 civilian detainees in a single area from March 2011 to August 2013. After the seek for justice failed to provide any prosecutions, victims’ households turned to courts in Europe.
This documentary movie follows two of those circumstances for greater than 5 years – one in Spain, the place a girl identifies her brother as one of many our bodies from the “Caesar” images, and the opposite in France, the place lawyer Clemence Bectarte triggers an investigation into the disappearance of her shopper’s brother and nephew in a detention centre in Damascus.The movie options testimony from “Caesar”, his confederate “Sami” and different Syrians, highlighting their harrowing experiences within the pursuit of fact and justice.
