rezani sigh, tuna was kidnapped along with 3 colleagues by unidentified to failing. her duction was turning point in the 3 weeks dw investigative unit delta deep into the case. we spoke with dozens of witnesses in a live satellite imagery and combed through interrogation records. to show that not only did the assad regime target activists, but a rebel group did to lose . our search begins in paris. we meet nadeem, hoody. ok. who led the terrorism program at human rights watch when the uprising against the assad regime began in 2011, created involved she was in close contact with verizon was organizing protests

across syria. she became a key source. she had the sort of softness, almost frailty to her when you met her at the beginning and you're like how she's doing this very dangerous job. and then as soon as you spoke to her, you immediately discovered the sort of steely courage and principles. the assad regime launched in brutal crack soon against the protesters and arrested corps of opposition. figures resigned with forced into hiding, but she continued to speak out while underground, not even over 100000 or harsh. th are the bakery of the international community can ever defeat the people who had a dream and say in the future. in 2013 resign sled

aside tight grip and damascus for neighboring duma. the town was under the control of various arms opposition groups. together they fought assad, but often each other to the hard line militia group, j, islam, increasingly had the upper hand. the duma was the last place resign was seen alive. the search for clues brings us to turkey. is temple we meet with a close friend and colleague of resign? she fled with her to do my summons. sorry, tells us it was pure luck that he was not kidnapped with her. he had just left their office only a few minutes before the abduction. to this day, he wondered whether he could have done more to find his friend. the arrival in duma, he said, was not easy. particularly due to the armed opposition group,

jayce lamb shadow, that they felt threatened by. we were in the field of human rights and we documented human rights abuses. we wanted to promote democracy and human rights. now women change to dance and what they told them i read, but the activists were not deterred. they continued to push for a flourishing civil society. the resign also began investigating harrowing claims against the hard line militia that the pained and tortured civilians in its prison. i remember that she insisted on visiting the detention facilities that were run by station and she would go, i mean, if anyone who knew or that she could be insistent, you know, she just really knew no fear. rezani life was threatened. armed

men shot in the air outside her office and left a threatening letter on her doorstep. leave dumas in 3 days or i will kill you. the phrase was repeated 5 times. the investigation is only through our sources inferior . we identified the author of the threat letter in a statement we obtained exclusively. he speaks about how a jesus islam associate instructed him to threaten resign. and what one to tell me that this girl is an agent could have brought us to court on charges. so i told him if she was an agent and working against the country, why don't you do something? why don't you kidnap her? are you afraid of her? he said, no, we are not afraid of her. we will bring her down. but now we want to threaten her. you know, when the dean hoodie learned about the threats he urged,

resolved to leave duma. he was worried for her safety. i mean, there's just she responded the next day saying i am not going to move. we did not do a revolution and lose 1000 the souls so that such monsters can come and repeat the same in just history. these people need to be held to account, just like the regime. on december 9th of 2013 armed men stormed her office late at night they kidnapped was on, along with her husband, her muddy human rights activists, severe and lawyer levine, hummadi. the latter was on the phone with his brother. when the kidnappers arrived, when a man or non, while they were talking about his brother, heard loud noise and someone shouted into the classical arab begging below to be enemies of god, called, or nauseum replied to calm down them. this is not on us above mo heck,

then the line went dead by them upon sama show the photos from the crime scene drawers are ransacked, and files and computers taken. this will soon lead us to the 1st clue. one of the stolen computers can be traced to an ip address used by jayce alice lam. back to the latest, there were other leads. he tells us, but no one would earnestly pursue them. and none of the other armed rebel groups would come to aid the activists. this young man didn't do anything. okay. was scared, scared of a confrontation with jason alazam. the kidnapping of who has from me, announced the moment where the higher the arm of the sort of armed uprising dominated to this day. the hardline rebel group denies that they couldn't after resign. we searched for former members of j. lawn who now live

in turkey. in the process, we establish contact with the men who investigated the kidnapping on their behalf. he is willing to meet with us, but would only do so on condition of anonymity. if i investigated the kidnapping on behalf of chase, obviously i think they wanted to clear themselves. but as i gathered more and more evidence that implicated them, they suddenly started threatening me. and so i had to plead. he said that many witnesses were threatened and even murdered by the group, and that j. alice lum, helped the main suspect flea after he was detained. he is convinced they are guilty . i'm 100 percent sure that the slot is responsible for the kidnapping. but the most important clue, the testimony of a young woman she had met resigned in a prison run by the rebel group only a few months after the kidnapping minnow regions. we had heard the name of sunday

to know what they once brought her to an utter again. and i do want to know she refused, so they beat her and she fainted. they asked us to bring her back into her so much and when she woke up with no, i saw her green eyes and she was tall and slim. we'd want to have it like him in the family. a couple of them did. back in berlin, we find another witness who also saw resign and j salami the present. to her mother look at the home. we investigate both accounts using satellite imagery. they show that resign withheld on the premises of a repurposed agricultural facility in the center of duma. the so called l talbert. prison is controlled by only one group jayce. so i really thing that if we had to syria to confront these limits militia with our findings spokesmen hands about actor is willing to speak to us without conditions. he denies

any involvement in the kidnapping, and instead blames the assad regime and other g hottest groups. we meet him in northern syria, where remains active. in his office. we confront him with the testimonies of our witnesses who saw resign fortuna in their prison. his answer is short, they are all liars. he claims that they never had any of the activists in their custody. couldn't many day militia slammed with a little lever claim, jason, on his long as responsible, arose on site to needs. this appearance is not being in marshall. rather they're taking a holistic dana to acute jason. there's not any, literally, if people who make sudden claims to be do not want to reveal the truth more unveiled, the perpetrator. and then my wife had of the it is a political place,

hughes and all this mom of kidnapping and activists and civilian and with me. and i will not sure when i would up. meanwhile, french authorities are also investigating gees islam for alleged war crimes and have even arrested a senior member of the group in paris, we meet with theory and human rights lawyer, mother and dar wish. together with lawyer kim on backtock, they have filed criminal charges for their findings implicate the rebel group. the only problem is proving it in a court of law in regime and they said, you slam still have a lot of power or an influence and capacity to intimidate and threaten the victims and the witnesses. so this really is a major concern for us because any prosecution, successful prosecution will also have to rely on this kind of testimonial evidence day and night. they work to track down. other witnesses include,

the hope of the court will soon issue and entitlements in a case that is no longer fully about restaurants, i tune of disappearance, but also about torture, summary executions and the use of child soldiers. it is time to, to say out loud that the syrian population has also been victims of other groups who pretended to be fighting for the revolution, but to who also turned against the population. this was what was alerting about. and this is was why maybe she died and we think that it's also was a heritage to her and to the many others who had the courage to say this, that is very important. so continue the me, ah, the me,

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