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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When Bissang was young, Asma paid a visit to her school in Yarmouk.
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She remembers being excited about the First Lady, this glamorous, refined character who publicly presented herself as the mother of the nation.
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Sitting in her tiny cell all alone, Bissan's mind wandered back to that visit by Asma to her school.
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In prison, Bisanz heard rumours that Asma is involved with the orphanages her son Omar and her newborn baby are held in.
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She's sure that the First Lady has had a hand in deliberately keeping not only her children from her, but lots of other children from parents who are imprisoned in detention facilities.
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And she believes Asma did this for a very particular reason, to help the regime exert pressure on the opposition.
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Actually, it's easy to see how these kinds of rumours might have started.
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The internet's littered with photos of Asma at orphanages, posing with young children on her lap.
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But if there was any truth to what Bissan had heard, that Asma's involvement was more sinister, calculated, it would be extraordinary.
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It would mean that the mother of the nation who'd modelled herself on Princess Diana was actively harming mothers and children on behalf of the state.
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there was one place that might tell us if there was any truth to these rumours.
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So we've just driven to the outskirts of Damascus, the suburbs of Damascus.
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We're going to go and visit an orphanage.
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We weren't able to get access to the specific orphanages where Bissan's children were held, but Asma seemed to be a patron of several institutions in the capital.
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So we called around and we managed to get ourselves invited to another place, Lahan al-Hayat.
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As First Lady, she was meant to be looking after the poor, the children, the needy in the city, particularly in the capital.
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So I'm going there to talk to the management and to talk to some of the people there to see if they remember her, what they remember of her.
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In the car on the way there, me, Sarah and my producer Gary, who travelled with me from London, are trying to go through what we think we know about asthma's role in the running of these institutions.
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Places that housed often extremely vulnerable babies and children.
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I guess let's ask the guys now... I mean, one of the things that she ran it, that her organisation ran it, and now particularly the place where we're going to now... What I need to establish is, was Asma just a patron of the orphanage, turning up a couple of times a year for a nice photo op, or did she actually have a hand in managing it?
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