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Tadmor

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Lebanon • 1h 43m

Directed by Monika Borgmann and Lokman Slim • Documentary • 2016 • 103 minutes

Amidst the popular uprising in Syria that begin in 2011, a group of former Lebanese detainees of the Assad regime decides to break their long-held silence about the horrific years they spent imprisoned in Tadmor (Palmyra), one of the Syrian government's most dreadful prisons.

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area studies, bashar al-assad, criminal justice, expository, human rights, icarus films, justice, law and legal studies, lebanon, mental disorder, middle east, middle east and north africa, middle east studies, ovid, palmyra, politics and political science, prison, psychology and mental health, ptsd, s_0058, s_0150, s_0211, s_0231, s_0362, s_0371, s_0401, s_0668, social issues, syria, tadmor, title_t, torture, world regions

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