How an ex-inmate of brutal Syria jail overcame trauma by helping others

Those long years behind bars have left him with one obsession: documenting and healing the atrocities committed inside the prison where he himself was locked up. "I am sure we'll see Bashar al-Assad in court one day," predicted Avlar, who is Turkish. In 2017, just months after he was freed, he co-founded the Association of Detainees and Missing Persons of Saydnaya Prison (ADMSP), which advocates for those jailed for daring to defy Assad's rule. "We don't want revenge, we want justice," he told...