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DATELINE WELCOME BACK TO SYRIA

2023 EP 3

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VO: Say “hello” to the new Syria!

VO: A sunny, place to relax… unwind… and leave the world behind.

VO: Exploding with history, culture and excitement Syria is “always beautiful.”

UPSOT: YOUTUBER: I am SO excited!

VO: At least that’s the official line being spruiked by the Syrian government - in these tourism campaigns... “Yes” tourism campaigns.

VO: And in these posts by a horde of travel vloggers holidaying under regime supervision.

UPSOT: YOUTUBER: Let’s go inside!

VO: Under President, and accused war criminal, Bashar al-Assad – the message is that the worst of the war is over.

VO: The new Syria is open! Not just to visitors and investors but to the millions of refugees who fled the regime and the war.

VO: It seems almost too good to be true.

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AYA [THOUGHT TRACK] They tried to say that the economy was good, and it is a safe country, and that Bashar Al-Assad wants us back. But we did not believe a word.

AYA: IV It would be really dangerous for our lives, if they want to send us back.

EVAN: PTC: After 12 years of civil war, a growing number of countries are now saying that it's safe for Syrian refugees to go home, but with 6 million people still displaced, we've come to find out if going back to Syria could, in fact, be LINK a deadly mistake.

TITLE CARD: DATELINE

WELCOME BACK TO SYRIA

by Ev, Josh, Rhi, Will

DENMARK

DRONE. AARHUS – DAY The port city glistens

TEXT ON SCREEN – AARHUS, DENMARK

VO: Denmark may seem an odd place to start a story about the war in Syria…

INT/EXT. FERRY – DAY

VO: But the country has taken in more than 34,000 Syrian refugees since the war broke out in 2011.

EXT. AARHUS – DAY

AYA [THOUGHT TRACK] I don’t call Syria my country; I call Denmark my country. That’s because Denmark has shown me all the whole childhood I lost in Syria.

INT. AWAD APARTMENT – DAY

UPSOT: AYA: Yeah, we’ll need to talk about it. UPSOT: MARYAM: Yeah.

VO: The Awad siblings, fled Syria’s capital Damascus with their parents nearly a decade ago.

UPSOT: MOHAMED: Now that we’re going to Copenhagen next week, then we could see what they are going to do and such.

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VO: Granted temporary residency, the siblings have thrived in Denmark.

VO: 22-year-old Maryam works in aged care… 19-year-old Aya recently finished high-school and 17-year-old Mohamad is still studying.

VO: Their memories of Syria, they recount in fluent Danish.

AYA: IV The only thing I remember from Syria is the war. That’s all I remember. The war, somebody was killed in front of me raping people in front of me, that is the only thing I remember.

MARYAM: IV: And chemicals too. Against children, yeah.

AYA: IV: I got my asthma from this, right? Yeah. MONTAGE: File Footage – 2011 Protests and Violence.

UPSOT: Violent Clashes between protestors. VO: Sparked by pro-democracy protests in 2011, the Syrian Civil War has left the country, violently scarred.

MONTAGE: File Footage – The War.

UPSOT: Guns. Airstrikes. War horror. VO: Fighting between the Russian backed forces of President Assad and a range of rebel groups has killed more than 350,000 people…

VO: Inflicted barbaric human rights abuses...

VO: And seen seven million Syrians flee the country with a further 6 million displaced at home.

UPSOT: A mother screaming at a mass grave.

MONTAGE: Regime soldiers patrol streets. Mass refugee camps.

VO: But today, after regaining control of roughly 70 percent of the country, the Assad regime says

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it's time for citizens to return.

UPSOT: ASSAD: Talking about the future of Syria, it’s fully open.

VO: Despite the claims, stories of regime intimidation and the abuse of returnees are common...

VO: And only 6 percent of Syrians, once labelled as "traitors” for fleeing the war, have voluntarily gone back. INT. AWAD APARTMENT – LIVING ROOM – CONTINUOUS.

UPSOT: EVAN: So, what was it that you wanted to show me?

UPSOT: AYA: Yes, I want to show you here.

VO: After escaping the horrors of the Syrian war, the Awads thought they’d never return.

VO: But in 2019 Maryam and Aya received a devastating letter from the Danish government.

INT. AWAD APARTMENT – LIVING ROOM – CONTINUOUS.

AYA shows EVAN an email on her MOBILE. She reads aloud.

UPSOT: AYA: Then, "It formed part of our assessment that the grounds for your residence, "the situation in Rif, Damascus, "over a prolonged period since

May 2018 has changed significantly. "It is therefore our assessment that there is no real risk "of being subjected to abuse "in violation of European human rights."

UPSOT: EVAN: What does it mean for you and your sister?

UPSOT: MARYAM: It means that they will not extend our residence permit.

VO: Claiming that some parts of Syria are now safe; Denmark’s Ministry of Immigration cancelled the sister’s visas and ordered them to go back.

UPSOT: AYA: It is really hard to think about it. It is really terrifying to think of such a thing…

INT. AWAD APARTMENT – DAY

AYA: IV: We had no idea. I could not

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believe that they would send us back after we had stayed in Denmark for so long.

INT. AWAD APARTMENT – LIVING ROOM.

VO: In a cruel twist, their parents have permanent asylum as political refugees and Mohamad is a minor so he can’t be deported, leaving the sisters to go back to Syria alone.

MARYAM: IV: I’m scared because I don’t have anybody there…family…no friends there. And my family is living here in Denmark, it would be dangerous if my sister and I go back to Syria.

EXT. GVS

SYRIANS on the streets of ARHUS.

VO: The sisters now join the more than 1000 Syrians who have had their visas reassessed thanks to a seismic shift in Danish immigration policy.

VO: Charlotte Slente from the Danish Refugee Council explains

INT. DRC OFFICES – DAY

EVAN interviews CHARLOTTE SLENTE, Secretary General of the DANISH REFUGEE COUNCIL.

CHARLOTTE: IV: There was a law introduced in Denmark back in 2015, to grant temporary permits to refugees to Denmark, not based on their individual sort of human right situation or security situation, but based on the generalized situation of war and fighting in Syria. And it was also set that if conditions of fighting improve only a little bit, not long-term, but a little bit of improvements, we might be looking at sending people back.

GFX: MAP OF SYRIA: Regions turn red – showing the spread of the conflict and highlighting the idea of danger zones.

VO: Based on the assessment of Danish authorities, refugees from designated “conflict” zones were granted asylum… But, their visas could be revoked if the threat level decreased.

GFX: MAP OF SYRIA: Regions starting with DAMASCUS and it’s surrounds begin to turn GREEN.

VO: In 2019, with Assad’s forces retaking large areas of the country, DENMARK classified Damascus and its outer regions as “safe” – cancelling hundreds of protection visas in the process.

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RESUME: INT. DRC OFFICES – DAY

EVAN continues with CHARLOTTE.

CHARLOTTE: IV: We do not understand why Denmark wants to stand out as the only country in Europe returning Syrians to Syria. I mean these are people who have gone through so much difficulty, they have found refuge in Denmark, they are trying to build a life here. Their children go to school here, people have learned Danish. It's very, very difficult to understand these decisions by the Danish government, I have to admit.

INT. AWAD APARTMENT – KITCHEN - DAY.

UPSOT: MOHAMMED: Do you need to bring any documents with you?

UPSOT: MARYAM: Yeah.

VO: Facing Deportation, Maryam and Aya have applied for a hearing, with the Danish Refugee’s Appeals board.

VO: With the help of a lawyer, the sisters will argue, they cannot safely return to Syria because their father is wanted by the regime.

INT. AWAD APARTMENT – LATER

EVAN interviews MARAYAM and AYA.

EVAN: IV: What do you fear would happen, could happen to you if you did go back, if you were sent back to Syria?

AYA: IV: They will take us straight away because they want to have my father, when we are back, they will want to have my father, so they will take us straight away, right? And they will somehow get in contact with my father, and if he does not come back to Syria, they will kill us.

AYA: IV: And if they don’t come back, they will kill us…first they will rape us,

INT. AWAD APARTMENT – CONTINUOUS

EVAN interviews MARAYAM and AYA.

AYA: IV: We fled the war so as not to die

or have something happen to us... That is why Denmark is my country. I don't want to leave Denmark at all.

RESUME: AWAD APARMENT – KITCHEN

VO: Maryam and Aya believe they have a strong case, but it’s now been two years since they lodged their appeal, and they still don’t have a hearing date.

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UPSOT: MOHAMMED: Will you succeed with the lawyer?

UPSOT: AYA: We have to. Or we’ll have to move on.

VO: The Awad sisters face an anxious wait, but other refugees are in a more frightening limbo.

DRONE – DEPORTATION CENTRE – LATE AFTERNOON.

TEXT ON SCREEN: Avnstrup Deportation Centre

HADIYA: IV: My name is Hadiya al-Samaan. I am from Damascus, Syria. I have three children. Maha is 11 years old. Yehia is ten and Youssef is eight. HADIYA: IV I have been in Avnstrup for a year now. Just like I am imprisoned in Syria, I'm imprisoned here.

INT. DEPORTATION CENTRE – HADIYA IV

VO: Refugees who lose their appeals are brought to Avenstrup in Northern Denmark to await deportation.

INT. DEPORTATION CENTRE – BEDROOM – LATER.

UPSOT: MAHA This is the room we sleep in….. I don’t have so many things. Here are my things, my drawings…

VO: Last year, Hadiya and her children lost their temporary protection status after living in Denmark for close to a decade.

INT. DEPORTATION CENTRE – - BEDROOM CONTINUOUS.

UPSOT: MAHA: There is a house, the Danish flag because I like Denmark…

VO: Hadiya refused to leave and now, she cannot be forcibly deported because of the Geneva convention.

RESUME: INT. DRC OFFICES – DAY.

CHARLOTTE explains to EVAN why Denmark can’t forcibly remove refugees from the country.

CHARLOTTE: IV: Denmark and other Western governments, don't recognize the government of Bashar al-Assad, which means that you can actually not make an agreement with that regime about sending Syrians back.

EVAN: Right. And until that happens, then they can't send anybody back. They're going to send them to these centers. That sounds like they could be there forever.

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CHARLOTTE: IV (14:24:29) Yes. I mean, they could be there for a very, very long time, I would assess.

INT. DEPORTATION CENTRE – LATER.

HADIYA: IV (00:52:11:04) I can't study because I haven't signed the deportation papers. (00:52:14:24) I can't work because I haven't signed the deportation papers. (00:50:58:18) // I can't even leave the camp or spend a night outside the camp or visit someone outside. I can't do any of this. I can't do anything other than sit in this room while waiting for the decision of Immigration.

INT. DEPORTATION CENTRE – LATER.

VO: Indefinite detention seems at odds with Denmark’s socially, progressive reputation – but the country is changing.

FILE FOOTAGE: A large and rowdy, ANTI-MIGRANT PROTEST

UPSOT: Anti Migration protests and chants.

VO: Hoping to steal votes from rising populist parties, Denmark’s left-wing government has introduced a series of hard-line, immigration reforms, reminiscent of Australia’s “stop the boats” scheme.

UPSOT: PRIME MINISTER: It’s our goal that they should go back home.

FILE FOOTAGE: Danish Parliament passes the DANISH ALIEN’S ACT.

VO: Aiming for zero asylum seekers, refugees can now be sent to Rwanda for processing… VO: Have their assets confiscated to pay for detention… VO: And those without visas, who can lawfully be deported, are being removed by force.

INT. DEPORTATION CENTRE – KITCHEN.

VO: What happens to Hadiya next, is entirely up to Danish authorities. VO: But this mother is adamant there’s one place she will never go.

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HADIYA: IV I have to be here. It's either here or Syria. Syria is not safe. It is not safe for a woman who has three children. It is not safe for a family. It is not safe.

HADIYA: IV The Syrian regime slaughtered us, killed us, bombed us. It killed our children before our eyes. It killed our husbands. It killed our parents. I feel that signing the deportation to Syria documents // It is our death certificate. )//I'm not going to sign on a death sentence for myself and my children.

VO: But is returning to Syria actually a death sentence?

TURKEY

EXT. GAZIANTEP – DAY

TEXT ON SCREEN: GAZIANTEP, TURKEY

SOT: PRAYER CALL

PTC: Turkey has born the brunt of the Syrian refugee crisis, it’s taken in about 3.6 million refugees about four times more than the rest of the E.U.

INT/EXT. CAR – DAY

VO: In cities close to the border like Gaziantep, many Syrians have heard the regime’s promise of peace and safety…

EVAN: PTC: and we’re here to find out what happens to those who return to Syria.

INT/EXT. CAR – CONTINUOUS

** Pronounced Tah-ha

EVAN’s car makes a stop in front of an eclectic OFFICE BUILDING. He picks up a passenger – MOHAMAD TAHA.

UPSOT: EVAN: Mohamad?

UPSOT: MOHAMAD: Yes.

UPSOT: EVAN: Evan, hi welcome.

VO: Mohamad Taha is a prominent, Syrian activist and founder of NGO, Justice for Life.

INT. CAR – DAY MOHAMAD talks to EVAN, explaining the work of JFL.

UPSOT: MOHAMAD: We are a human rights organization that documents violations committed by all parties of conflict in Syria. Our work focuses on documenting violations and meeting victims who suffered from severe violations during the war since 2011 till present

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INT/EXT. CAR – DAY

EVAN & MOHAMAD continue to chat. ROAD SIGNS point toward the SYRIAN border.

VO: As part of his work, Mohamad has been inside Syria interviewing returnees and their families.

VO: Today, he’s agreed to share his findings and take us to the Syrian border… if we can get there.

INT. CAR – DAY.

A POLICE OFFICER stops the car. The tense exchange is filmed by a camera on the camera man’s lap.

EVAN: Hold on a sec. Wait.

VO: We’re stopped at a Police Check Point.

UPSOT: FIXER: We’re with Australian TV We’re with Australian TV. VO: Recent violence and mortar strikes near the border have authorities on high alert.

UPSOT: FIXER: He wants the press passes.

EXT. SYRIA BORDER – DAY.

UPSOT: MOHAMAD: This is the checkpoint between Syria and Turkey. And the buildings that we can see over there are in Syria.

GVs. SYRIAN BORDER

VO: But with Syria in walking distance, this is as far as we can go.

UPSOT: MOHAMAD It is a very sad situation. It is hard and unsafe to get to Syria or to settle there at the

moment.

MONTAGE: EVAN and MOHAMAD talking at the border with CLOCKWORK ORANGE style flashes of ULTRA VIOLENCE. FILE FOOTAGE: Fighting between Turkey and HTS. Turkish air strikes against Aleppo.

VO: Just ten kilometres from here, Turkish forces have been fighting various militias – and in November last year, Kurdish rebels were bombed in regime held Aleppo.

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FILE FOOTAGE: Fighting in Idlib

VO: Clashes between Assad’s forces and opposition groups continue in the province of Idlib.

FILE FOOTAGE: Damascus airport shelling – July 22

VO: And last month, Damascus was hit by Israeli airstrikes.

RESUME: EXT. SYRIA BORDER – DAY. MOHAMAD gives EVAN his opinion on the security situation in SYRIA.

VO: But despite continued fighting, it seems the greatest threat facing returnees, ISN’T war.

EXT. SYRIA BORDER – CONTINUOUS. MOHAMAD tells EVAN what he has heard about refugees returning to SYRIA.

EVAN: What are you finding about the people who are going back? Returning back to Syria in the past few years.

UPSOT: MOHAMAD: Anyone who goes to areas of government control after they have been out of government control in neighbouring countries, are usually detained.

UPSOT: MOHAMAD: Most people get detained even though they are not wanted by the Syrian government and they don't have any criminal records and have not participated in anything.

UPSOT: MOHAMAD: There were dozens of people according to the people we interviewed. They were detained and some of them were tortured and humiliated at the checkpoints.

EXT. SYRIA BORDER – CONTINUOUS. MOHAMAD explains the abuses inflicted on returnees.

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UPSOT: MOHAMAD (00:55:28:16) and There are a number of accounts and testimonies by the women who escaped from detention, in which they talk about the sexual exploitation they were subjected to. They were also subjected to rape and harassment in detention.

UPSOT: MOHAMAD (00:41:28:21) And some of them also told us that these people, especially the young people, were taken to serve in the compulsory military service.

EXT. GAZIANTEP – AFTERNOON.

VO: Away from the border, we manage to secure an interview, with a young man who recently

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Among the rooftops, 22-year-old Ibrahim watches the sun set from his balcony – his sad eyes reflecting the sun’s orb.

went back to Syria and says he was detained by the regime VO: His story is frightening.

IBRAHIM: (THOUGHT TRACK) I spent around 3 months in jail. They blamed me for being a cause of destruction to Syria and the state, they hit, humiliated and dragged me. They make you accountable for things you have nothing to do with.

INT. IBRAHIM’S APARTMENT – AFTERNOON.

EVAN sits on the floor of a small, studio apartment. A bird in a cage sings. IBRAHIM pours Evan a tea then sits opposite him on the floor.

VO: Ibrahim and his family fled from Syria to Jordan when he was just a boy.

VO: They returned to their village when they thought it was safe. VO: But when Ibrahim visited Damascus in 2019 to apply for a passport, he says fell victim to the regime. IBRAHIM: IV: I had no choice but to go to the city to get the paper and once I reached the Passports’ Building, in the security zone. Once I arrived they read my name and arrested me instantly.

INT. IBRAHIM’S APARTMENT – AFTERNOON.

IBRAHIM: IV: They hanged me on the wall from my hands, for more than 7-8- 9 hours . After the torture they would say, you killed four officers and you would say yes. They would say you blew up a check point and you’d agree. The torture was beyond imagination.

INT. APARTMENT – CONTIUOUS

VO: Ibrahim says he was released without charge after a relative bribed prison officials. VO: But he was immediately taken into the army and served six months before fleeing and later paying people smugglers to get him to Turkey.

EXT. GAZIANTEP STREET – DAY

IBRAHIM walks along the bustling street. He visits a market stall and buys some

EVAN: What would happen, if you were to go back to Syria?

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raw nuts.

INT. IBRAHIM’S APARTMENT – AFTERNOON

IBRAHIM tends to his pet bird. He meticulously cleans its cage then feeds it.

VO: Shockingly, Ibrahim and others like him could soon face that situation. VO: There are rumours the Assad regime is negotiating the forcible return of Syrians from Turkey.

VO: I ask Ibrahim why he thinks the regime wants them back.

EXT. PARK DAY

In SLO MOTION, IBRAHIM plays with a stray CAT in the park. The sun flares around them as the play.

IBRAHIM: IV Money. This is the main reason. Some people were wanted and arrested yet were released once they paid a determined amount of money. Once paid they are out. The second reason, they need people to serve in the army.

EVAN: What would happen for a family returning from Turkey or Europe, expect? IBRAHIM: They will suffer and regret coming back. We know what would happen inside a Syrian regime jail.

INT. JFL OFFICE – DAY

In a tiny office at a single DESK, MOHAMAD and EVAN read testimony from the JFL reports.

MOHAMAD: SOT: Women that might return from areas outside Syria, lets say European countries or neighbour countries might face violations or arrest when they arrive. They may also disappear. MOHAMAD: We document violations daily. Families of those who lost someone to torture.

INT. JFL OFFICE – DAY

MOHAMAD gives EVAN his opinion on SYRIA.

MOHAMAD: IV: Areas that are controlled by the Syrian government, are not safe.

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EXT. SYRIAN BORDER – DAY

VO: We put these allegations to the Syrian government, but they did not respond.

VO: According to human rights groups, over ninety-five thousand people have been forcibly disappeared by the regime since the war began.

DENMARK

EXT. COURTHOUSE – DAY.

VO: A world away, Maryam and Aya’s fight against deportation to Syria is at a critical point.

UPSOT: AYA: Today we’ll find out if we can stay in Denmark or get thrown out of Denmark. Today we can see our future or whether we have to return to Syria and die

EXT. COURTHOUSE – DAY.

VO: The sister’s case is finally being heard by the Danish Refugee Appeals Board. VO: They hope that by presenting evidence similar to Mohamad and Ibrahim’s, the board will rule that deporting them to Syria is inhumane.

UPSOT: MARYAM: We don’t know what’s going to happen to us

UPSOT: AYA; We are very nervous stressed, I don’t really know. It’s stressful, I cannot find the words to express it, we are very stressed now.

VO: After a two year wait, the sisters are finally called before the board.

VO: With their future in the hands of Danish authorities, I want to know how they ended up here in the first place.

BREAK

EXT. AARHUS – DAY.

VO: Denmark has revoked the temporary protection visas of

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TEXT ON SCREEN: Aarhus, Denmark

hundreds of Syrian refugees - threatening to deport them back into danger.

INT. DRC OFFICES – DAY CHARLOTTE SLENTE takes EVAN on a tour around the DRC offices. She stops at a wall sized, MAP of the WORLD and points out many of the countries her organisation has offices in.

UPSOT: CHARLOTTE: We operate in more than 40 countries around the world.

VO: Founded in 1956, The Danish Refugee Council is Denmark’s largest non-profit organisation and one of the world’s leading refugee protection groups.

UPSOT: CHARLOTTE: So our humanitarian assistance is very much related to supporting both internally displaced in countries, but also refugees, uh, that are hosted by neighbouring countries to, to

GFX: Country of info report.

VO: But when Danish authorities classified parts of Syria as safe,

their decision was partly based on the findings of a 2019 Report, co-authored by the DRC.

INT. DRC OFFICES – DAY.

EVAN interviews CHARLOTTE regarding DRC’s COUNTRY OF ORIGIN REPORT. CHARLOTTE: IV: The report on Syria was a report on the security situation in Syria back then in 2019 when it was elaborated.

EVAN: And what was the finding of your report?

CHARLOTTE: IV: I mean the report itself doesn’t provide any conclusions. It only talked about the security situation and saying that, yes, security conditions have improved in Damascus and Rif Damascus, so the broader area of Syria. BUT the government has decided to interpret the fact that there's no fighting in Damascus at this moment as being equal to it being safe to sending back Syrians to Syria.

INT. DRC OFFICES – DAY

EVAN discusses the misuse of the report and whether the DRC ought to have known it would be used nefariously

EVAN: Is that the problem with the report basically, that it's allowed it to be used in this way?

CHARLOTTE: IV: No, I think the major problem here is the law that was passed back in 2015, where you even say that slight improvements in the situation of fighting in a given country could pave the way for actually starting to look at returns.

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EVAN: So, that was known before your report was actually written,, so by then, coming to the conclusion that there is some peace in some parts of a country, were you knowingly getting yourselves in that situation where the report would be used as a basis.

CHARLOTTE: No, I don’t think you can say that. This report doesn't say anything about whether it's safe for Syrians to return…

INT. DRC OFFICES – DAY

EVAN’S questions continue.

EVAN: But you knew the government was looking for a reason to send people back. They had the visa category for that. So again, was it the right thing to be involved?

CHARLOTTE: IV: I think that's always a risk when you contribute to reports that you can be misinterpreted. This report was definitely misused in this case.

INT. DRC OFFICES – DAY

EVAN has a final question.

EVAN: Does it make you perhaps rethink whether DRC should be doing these sort of reports in future?

Charlotte (14:22:10): Actually, we consider every time we are invited into participating in one of these fact-finding reports, whether we want to contribute or not. (14:22:51): And that will continue.

EXT. AARHUS STREETS – DAY.

VO: Historically, the third largest contributor to the DRC’s budget has been the Danish government. VO: The DRC vehemently maintains that this does not influence their work or their reports.

RESUME: EXT. COUTHOUSE – DAY.

MARYAM and AYA exit to the street crying tears of joy – and carrying bouquets of FLOWERS. They rush to their FRIENDS and throw their arms around them.

VO: In Aarhus, after a two year wait, the board has finally reached a verdict in the Awad sister’s case. UPSOT: FRIEND: What did you get, do you know?

UPSOT: MARYAM: Asylum.

VO: Maryam and Aya have been granted a continued resident visa – overturning their deportation and paving the way to full citizenship.

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EXT. COURTHOUSE – LATER A joyous MARYAM & AYA speak to us.

UPSOT: AYA: We got it. Finally, we made it. We got our dream…yes. UPSOT: MARYAM: We can stay here in Denmark.

UPSOT: AYA: We are really happy. We have no words for it. I think….we can now live…living our lives.

VO: But the moment is bitter-sweet.

VO: A third of appeals that reach the court fail… leaving families to choose between a detention centre or going back to Syria.

AYA: IV: And there are a lot of them who doesn’t have their residence permit yet. We have to fight it. They said that Syria is a safe country, and the state needs you. But our future is here now. I Denmark is our country now.

TEXT ON SCREEN

Mohamad and Ibrahim survived the February 6 earthquake in Gaziantep.

They remain unwilling to return to Syria.

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