An award-winning film telling the hidden story of tens of thousands of men, women and children who have disappeared into a secret network of detention centres in Syria is due to be screened at the Lansdown Hall in Stroud on Friday, November 17.
Syria’s disappeared: the case against Assad was first shown on Channel 4 earlier this year and follows survivors of detention, families of detainees, regime defectors and international war crimes investigators as they fight to bring the perpetrators to justice and desperately campaign for the release of the disappeared.
Short-listed for a number of awards including Investigation of the Year in the British Journalism Awards and TV Documentary of the Year in the Foreign Press Association Awards, it has recently won the Investigative Video category at the Association for International Broadcasting Awards.
Nicola Cutcher, the film's producer and an investigative journalist whose parents live in Stroud, has previously worked on programmes including Panorama and Newsnight and will be answering questions from the audience after the screening hosted by the Mid-Glos Group of Amnesty International UK.
Syria’s disappeared: the case against Assad will be screened at the Lansdown Hall on Friday, November 17, tickets will be £5 on the door from 7pm, the film will start at 7.30pm.
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