'Hero' who exposed Assad horrors tortured to death by vindictive regime in its final hours [View all]

Few could bear to look long at his face, with its sunken, sorrowful eyes so full of pain – but when Mazen al-Hamada spoke, you could not help but listen.

He spoke to audiences across the West, in lecture theatres and parliaments, bearing witness to the darkness of the Assad regime in low, urgent tones.

Sometimes, he showed them his wrists, scarred by the chains from which he hung until he lost consciousness. He would speak of the beatings and the rapes he and others suffered, his haunted eyes reddening at the memory.

On Thursday, they laid Hamada to rest in central Damascus, the capital coming to a halt as its residents gathered to honor the man who became the embodiment of a nation’s suffering and who now had become as powerful a symbol in death as he was in life.

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