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Prisoner of conscience.

Concordia in the news
Posted on October 6, 2015

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  • Psychology student Yaman Alqadri is featured in an article in the Montreal Gazette. It reports that Alqadri was detained and tortured as a prisoner of conscience in Syria in 2011 and mentions her participation as a panellist at yesterday's Concordia conference on the Syrian refugee crisis. The conference was organized by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS).