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How the Damascus Dossier Investigation Failed Families of Syria’s Forcibly Disappeared

The Damascus Dossier

When a consortium of international journalists published stories on a leak including 33,000 photographs of detainees killed by the Bashar al-Assad regime, they expected praise. Instead, families of the forcibly disappeared condemned it as exploitative and harmful, raising urgent questions about journalistic ethics, accountability and who investigations like this are really for.

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