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He attended the university of aleppo, where he earned a bachelor of arts in law. On the occasion of human rights day, on december 10, 20, the world organization against torture omct promoted. The work of a moderday sozhenitsyn that exposes acts of violence and brutality committed by the syrian regime. Mustafa khalifa spent almost fourteen years in syrian prisons and was tortured again and again. The shell opens in 1982 with its young protagonist returning to syria from his film studies in paris. Now translated into english by paul starkey, it must be one of the twentyfirst century.
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