Global Mental Health Film Series - Sound of Torture
平特五不中 Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, 平特五不中 School of Social Work & Global Mental Health Film Series Sound of Torture
A聽film by Keren Yeshayo
Discussion to follow with:
Maya Fennig 聽& Yohannes Ferdinando Drar 聽 聽 聽
Since Europe closed its borders in 2006, thousands of Eritrean refugees fled their military dictator-ruled country towards Israel. The only way out is across the Sinai desert in Egypt. There, many are kidnapped by Bedouin smugglers and taken to camps where they are tortured and raped as they are forced to call their relatives begging for ransom for their release. We follow Meron Estefanos, an Eritrean journalist-activist living in Sweden. On her radio program she talks to hostages in the camps while recording their pleas for help as well as their family members raising money for their release. We also follow two refugees that made it into Israel in their attempt to save their loved ones lives.聽Both eloquent and harrowing, SOUND OF TORTURE spotlights one of today鈥檚 most underreported human rights violations and the one woman who is making it her mission to create change.聽
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聽 聽 聽 聽 聽Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 6:30-8:30 pm
聽 聽Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry, Amphitheatre
聽 聽 聽 4333 C么te-Ste-Catherine Rd., Montreal, QC H3T 1E4