Chloe Hadjimatheou
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3,299 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 27 Aug
Chloe Hadjimatheou’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In cells barely a couple of metres across, dozens of people were crammed in, often having to take it in turns to sit down because there wasn't enough room.
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Lots of them had done nothing wrong.
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They weren't even involved in the protests or the opposition movement.
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So the fact that Bissan's only crime was being married to an opposition fighter, that wasn't unique.
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But she was treated differently, and she first noticed it when they began questioning her.
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The trade in prisoners...
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It was common that the captured families or children of rebel fighters would be exchanged for regime soldiers, prisoners of war.
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The children of rebels were often labelled as security cases and then they were used as bargaining chips.
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Back when she'd been living in Idlib, surrounded by rebels, Bissan had heard about these kinds of swaps.
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The guards suspected that Bissan might be married to a rebel fighter, so they began interrogating her.
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And they leant on the fact that she was there with her young boy.
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That's what broke her in the end.
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She gave them the password to her phone and they found messages from her husband.
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That was enough for them to accuse her of harbouring a terrorist.
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She and Omar were put in solitary confinement, a tiny dark damp cell with nothing to do but stare at the wall.
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There was a female guard that was especially cruel.
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There was never enough food and they were constantly hungry.
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And when Omar would cry, she would yell at Bissan.
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It was almost sadistic, the pleasure she took in tormenting not only the women in there, but also Omar, who was so little he couldn't cope.
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When she went into labour with her second child, Bissan was taken to hospital.
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