Los Angeles-based filmmaker Murad Aldin Amayreh interweaves their accounts drawn from time in prisons in El Salvador, Colombia, Israel, Syria and Vietnam. Those places may be far-flung, but the survivors' stories of inhumane treatment and psychological baggage ring...

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We begin with Murad Aldin Amayreh. He is a filmmaker and his film is called “The Tortured: Stories of Survival.” Hector Aristizabal, one of his interviewees in the film was tortured in...