BCB alumna Wafa Mustafa interviewed by the BBC World Service and Channel 4 News

BCB alumna Wafa Mustafa was recently featured in a BBC World Service audio documentary and interviewed on Channel 4 news.

In the BBC audio documentary titled Gone but not forgotten: Syria's missing persons, Wafa speaks about her father Ali Mustafa who she believes is being forcibly detained by the Syrian regime and how his fate motivates her activism in campaigning for justice in Syria. She also recounts the story of her and her family’s flight from Syria and the journey that lead her to study in Berlin.

The interview with Channel 4 News was broadcast on the day of the verdict of the Al-Khatib Trial in Koblenz which saw a member of Assad's secret police sentenced. In the interview Wafa speaks about how the verdict validates Syrians experiences and confirms that Assad's Syria is a "torture state."

Wafa is a 2020 Humanities, Arts, and Social Thought graduate and a former PIESC Program scholar. She is a journalist and activist, who works together with the organization Families for Freedom, campaigning for the freedom of those who have been detained by the Syrian regime.

Listen to the full BBC World Service documentary here >>
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Post Date: 01-14-2022