Syrians hold a protest in central Damascus in solidarity with political prisoners that were disappeared under the rule of ousted president Bashar al-Assad. Many of their family members are still seeking information about their fate.
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00:00We, all Syrians, do not say that this moment is the fruit of a long struggle, tens of thousands
00:25of refugees who have spent their lives in prison. All of them.
00:31In the Syrian coast, tens of detainees, refugees and refugees have been arrested.
00:43Everywhere, here, everywhere, in Aleppo, in Jeddah, on the shrines.
00:49My uncle was arrested in 2012.
00:55We asked him in 2018 if he was actually dead in 2016.
01:00Yesterday, we received a document stating that he was dead in 2013.
01:04We didn't find his body, we didn't take his ID, and we don't know anything.
01:10This is my husband, Moudar Al-Jindi, an engineer.
01:15He was arrested in 1987.
01:18He died under torture, they didn't tell us.
01:21I still have his family ID card.
01:26I tried a lot, of course, with the security services, but there was no answer.
01:31I tried to call a lawyer in 1992.
01:35I was a detainee, I was released in 1992.
01:39I was released in 1992.