Dear sisters, brothers and friends,
Rethink Rebuild Society and Amnesty International are pleased to invite you to a FREE screening of the documentary:
Syria’s Disappeared: The Case Against Assad (2017)
Directed by Sara Afshar
Runtime: 49 minutes
Certificate: (From Channel 4) This programme is not suitable for younger viewers. Distressing images of death/torture/atrocities.
Where: RR Multi-facility room, Unit 7, Longsight Business Park, Hamilton Road, Manchester, M13 0PD
When: Sunday the 7th of May 2017 at 6:45 pm
“When we were imprisoned, we promised each other that if one of us got out we would tell the world what was happening inside. I am determined to expose this regime, just as we agreed. It’s my duty to the people who are still there.” Mansour echoed this: “It is always a cure to my soul’s pain to help those who are still underground.”
Please make sure you arrive on time as the screening will start at 7:00 exactly. The screening will be followed by a discussion.
This event is FREE and tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.
PLEASE NOTE REGISTRATION ON EVENTBRITE IS ESSENTIAL:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-screening-syrias-disappeared-the-cas...
The Film:
Broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 March 2017, this documentary tells the hidden story of tens of thousands of men, women and children disappeared by the regime of Bashar al Assad into a network of clandestine detention centres. It weaves together the powerful personal stories of three Syrians with evidence gathered from regime documentation smuggled out of Syria.
Amnesty International, in a report published in February 2017, state that between 2011 and 2015, every week and often twice a week, groups of up to 50 people were taken out of their prison cells and hanged to death. In five years, as many as 13,000 people, most of them civilians, were hanged in secret at Saydnaya Prison. Read the report here:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde24/5415/2017/en/