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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Justin Salhani, Mat Nashed

Corpses, men who don’t know their names: Scenes from a Damascus hospital

Crouching on the floor of a hospital room, this man does not know who he is any more after the torture he lived through [Ali Haj Suleiman/Al Jazeera]

Damascus, Syria – In the furthest room of the Mujtahid Hospital basement in Damascus, a frail young man with jet-black hair crouches on the floor. He holds his face in his trembling hands as people walk in and out.

People come in to look at him, hoping he might be their lost relative. When they manage to convince the man to look up, his face stares not at them, but through them, his eyes calm but distant.

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