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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She couldn't believe how asthma had turned on her, and she kept thinking, asthma, what happened to you?
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What Maya says suggests Asma knew what was going on in the orphanages she helped oversee.
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And it lines up with what we've heard from the numerous staff at the orphanage we visited.
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What we haven't found is a document with Asma's signature on it, proving on paper that she knew.
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What we do have is the testimony of multiple people who were there, speaking independently, all telling a similar story.
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Asma's father, Dr Fawaz Akraz, declined to give me an interview, but he did respond to some of the allegations that I asked him to pass on to his daughter for me.
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He told me that he wholly and categorically rejects the idea that Asma knew, authorised, facilitated or tolerated the use of children for political purposes or as a means of pressure against families or detainees.
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He said that he makes this denial as her father with the knowledge of a lifetime.
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And while he recognises that such knowledge can't be a substitute for evidence, he says he's never been shown any clear, compelling and independently verifiable evidence for any of these claims.
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By 2020, it felt like Bashar al-Assad had essentially won the war.
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He'd regained around 70% of the country and the rebels had all been pushed into two pockets in the north.
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And so now the world entered a new reality, one in which Bashar was here to stay.
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Slowly but surely, Syria's status as the North Korea of the Middle East began to shift, and Bashar began to be accepted back into the international fold, especially with neighbouring countries.
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Asma too was enjoying a more powerful status at home.
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Her portrait had begun appearing alongside her husband's, behind desks in government offices, and colossal banners bearing her face hung on the sides of buildings.
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She even became the theme of several hip-hop songs, like this one that describes her as the Jasmine of Damascus.
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By December 2024, Bissan had been in prison without her children for almost seven years.
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She would see her boys on the few occasions every year when they were permitted to come for half-hour visits.
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And her mum would sometimes manage to get in to see her too.
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But her awareness of the outside world was limited to snatches that she and her cellmates would catch when they listened to the guards outside their door.
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