Global Mental Health Film Series - Sound of Torture
ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ School of Social Work & Global Mental Health Film Series Sound of Torture
AÂ film by Keren Yeshayo
Discussion to follow with:
Maya Fennig  & Yohannes Ferdinando Drar   Â
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. Both eloquent and harrowing, SOUND OF TORTURE spotlights one of today’s most underreported human rights violations and the one woman who is making it her mission to create change.Â
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     Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 6:30-8:30 pm
  Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry, Amphitheatre
   4333 Côte-Ste-Catherine Rd., Montreal, QC H3T 1E4