Syria Documentary: A Young Girl's Heart-Wrenching Story of Her Time in a Syrian Prison This incredible documentary shows the terrifying ordeal that a young girl named Amal suffered as a Syrian prisoner, despite protesting her innocence from the first day. The heart-wrenching tale of torture and maltreatment shows just how bad life inside Syrian can be, especially as a woman. Why not join the channel at: http://www.youtube.com/worlddocs2100 Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest. Its capital Damascus is among the oldest continuously-inhabited cities in the world. A country of fertile plains, high mountains, and deserts, it is home to diverse ethnic and religious groups, including the Arab, Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds, Circassians, Mhallami, Mandeans and Turks. Religious groups include Sunni, Christians, Alawite, Druze religion, Mandeanism and Yezidi. Sunni Arabs make up the largest population group in Syria. In English, the name "Syria" was formerly synonymous with the Levant (known in Arabic as al-Sham) while the modern state encompasses the sites of several ancient kingdoms and empires, including the Eblan civilization of the 3rd millennium BC. In the Islamic era, Damascus was the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate and a provincial capital of the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt. The modern Syrian state was established after World War I as a French mandate, and represented the largest Arab state to emerge from the formerly Ottoman-ruled Arab Levant. It gained independence in April 1946, as a parliamentary republic. The post-independence period was tumultuous, and a large number of military coups and coup attempts shook the country in the period 1949–1971. Between 1958-61, Syria entered a brief union with Egypt, which was terminated by a military coup. The Arab Republic of Syria came into being in 1963, transforming from the Republic of Syria in the Ba'athist coup d'état. Syria was under Emergency Law from 1963 to 2011, effectively suspending most constitutional protections for citizens, and its system of government is considered to be non-democratic. Bashar al-Assad has been president since 2000 and was preceded by his father Hafez al-Assad, who was in office from 1970 to 2000. For more on Syria: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria For news on the war in Syria: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/ and: http://www.reuters.com/places/syria For Syrian food: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_cuisine For Syrian travel advice: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/syria For more on history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History For more on documentaries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film For up to date world news: http://www.cnn.com or: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news or: http://www.lemonde.fr finally: http://news.sky.com/world See also: Syria (Country),worldnews2100,syrian,syrian war,war in syria,syria documentary,syrian people,documentary about syria,travel in syria,syrian life,syria torture,syrian prison,life in syria,syrian desert,Damascus (City/Town/Village),travel in Damascus,Damascus travel guide,YouTube,syria travel documentary,Kurds,Arabs (Ethnicity),Greeks (Ethnicity),syrian empire,The Arab republic of syria,Documentary (TV Genre)

• published: 02 Jan 2015
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