Captagon Connection: Trafficking continues after Assad's downfall
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For decades, under the dictatorship of Assad father and son, Syria was a media black hole, ranked 179th out of 180 in RSF’s 2024 World Press Freedom Index.
Monitored, threatened, imprisoned, and murdered, Syrian reporters were systematically prevented from carrying out their duty to provide information.
On December 8, 2024, everything changed with the fall of Bashar al-Assad. A wave of hope and relief washed over Syria.
But for Syrian journalists, certain stories that were off-limits under Assad remain that way today, such as the trafficking of Captagon. With the invaluable help of a few local colleagues, Forbidden Stories investigated.
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