Omar Alshogre speaks with the conviction of those who have nothing more to lose. At 25, the memories of adolescence of the young survivor of Bachar al-Assad's jails are a catalog of horror: electric shocks, cables, sexual abuse, deprivation of food, or even this sinister task which consisted in picking up ( sometimes in several pieces) the bodies of his fellow prisoners who died under torture (including his own cousin, Bachir), to take them to the "isolation room" and mark their foreheads with a simple number.
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When he was released in June 2015, after three years in prison, Omar weighed only 34 kg. His body was broken. His head, devastated. But he could never forget all of these numbers. Neither the others, those of the tens of thousands of prisoners who are still languishing on death row while across the country, the Syrian regime is reimposing its control over the last rebel bastions by burning the last buds of the 2011 revolution with
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