Two Syrian doctors and a nurse told AFP in a series of interviews over the weekend that Bashar al-Assad's government coerced them into providing false testimony to international investigators after a deadly 2018 chlorine attack.
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00:00The next morning.
00:30The hospital was in the basement, and this is the driver.
00:47We were surprised, and each one of us, while he was in the investigators' room, was given
00:53a device.
00:54We were told to put the device in our pockets and leave it there, but here we couldn't
01:01talk about it.
01:02We went to the investigator, and he didn't say anything, but his gun was on his table,
01:11and he was pointing it at me.
01:16We were doctors with a revolution in a field hospital, and we served people for a long
01:23time.
01:24So they turned us into martyrs.
01:27This is the only harm, in my opinion.
01:31But what was more important was the lives of thousands of people who were in the hospital.
01:40My family is in Douma, and most of the staff are in Douma.
01:47We are under pressure because they are telling us that there is no chemistry.
01:54This is the story we are following.
01:57There was a direct threat.
02:01This is the story we are following.
02:04There was a direct threat.