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Syria: desperately searching for missing prisoners
Thousands of people have "vanished" inside Syria's prison system over more than a decade of civil conflict. Their families are left in a desperate situation, forced to pay out large sums of money to middlemen, government and security officials for any information about their loved ones - often with no result.
Source: BBC (14/09/2023)