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Documenting my cellmates' names in blood and rust

Mansour Omari used chicken bones and blood to write down the names of his cellmates on a piece of cloth. He smuggled the names out so their loved ones would know where they were.

Mansour Omari spent nearly a year in a Syrian government prison in 2012. We hear his account of life in an underground cell and how, against the odds, he managed to smuggle out the names of his fellow cellmates to their loved ones - by writing them down, using chicken bones and blood on a piece of cloth. This story was first broadcast on 20th March 2017.

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Image: Mansour Omari's list of names
Credit: Mansour Omari

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