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Syria detainee: 'We were asked for our last wishes'

Mansour Al Omari was imprisoned for a year by the Assad regime after his office was raided by people in civilian clothes.

In prison, he found a way - using chicken bones and blood - to keep a list of all those who were being held.

He now lives in Sweden but has continued to document human rights violations by the Syrian government and keep a record of the names of the dead and missing.

Al Omari tells Mishal Husain about the treatment he and the other detainees were subjected to in Syria, and how they were threatened with execution and asked to say their last wishes.

(Image: Syrian freedom flag, credit: Getty Images)

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