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 ...

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In 2013, a Syrian military defector known as “Caesar” smuggled out over 53,000 photographs that human rights groups say showed clear evidence of rampant torture, and also disease and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...