The Syrian military defector codenamed Caesar, who smuggled out more than 53,000 haunting images showing tortured, emaciated corpses of Syrian detainees – evidence that led to landmark sanctions ...

The individual had kept his identity hidden since documenting torture and rights abuses in fear that he and his team would be caught by Assad's regime forces ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

SUN 02.02.2025 – 13:15 UTC ...

A visitor looks at photographs from the exhibition, ‘Caesar’s Photos: Inside Syria’s Secret Prisons’, held in Washington DC in 2015 (Getty) Speaking from the hospital, Moustafa described ...

The Independent spoke to Caesar together with Mouaz Moustafa, the founder of a US-based NGO, the Syrian Emergency Task Force, which helped smuggle the photos out of Syria via USB drives and raise ...

Caesar, who still has not revealed his true identity, has offered to return to Syria to help the incoming authorities collect evidence. “I’ve spent my life serving the Syrian people,” he told The ...