Surviving Syria’s Prisons

2025•1h 15m•8.0/10

Documentary

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🎬TMDb

8.0/10(1)

A look inside one of the most brutal campaigns of state repression in modern history - told by those who endured it and those who enforced it.

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BBC Two, ARTE, BBC Studios, FRONTLINE

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Status

Released

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Region US · Lang EN

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Cast

Sara Obeidat

Self : Narrator (voice over)

Shadi Haroun

Self : Hadi Haroun's brother

Hadi Haroun

Self : Shadi Haroun's brother

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