June 26, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

26.06.2017

“Thank you for everything,” a young man with broken English told us on the phone. We asked him where he was calling from and if there was something we could do for him. He only said he was calling from Germany. The Social Worker in METAdrasi’s Torture Victims Certification Department remembered him: he was a 22-year-old Afghan man, a victim of torture in his home country, who, when we met him, was trying to go to Germany to reunite with his wife and child…

Thousands of people arrive in our country seeking for security. Many of them are victims of torture.

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