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https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/30/middleeast/syria-prisons-death-notices-intl/index.htmlPublished by: CNN NEWS on 30 Aug 2018
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No man will see Huda Halasi’s face or hear her voice while she goes through her four-month grieving period. She sits in a side room of her house in Aleppo province, surrounded only by her female relatives. Her eyes are fiery but her voice never rises above a whisper. For six years, she and herfamily agonized over her husband’s fate. His whereabouts and conditions were shrouded in mystery.
Until one day in early August, the Syrian government issued his death certificate.
“We don’t know when he died exactly,” Huda says to her relative.
Abdul Ghafour Halasi, an anesthesiologist, was arrested in the early years of Syria’s war. He vanished into an abyss of prisons and military intelligence centers, and was one of around 82,000 forcibly disappeared people that local and international rights groups demanded the Syrian government return.
Families scrambled to track down their imprisoned relatives and scraped together money to try to secure their release. Much of the time [...]
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