The Media Show: ISIS Prisons Museum

媒体秀:ISIS 监狱博物馆

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2024-10-17

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The ISIS Prisons Museum was established in 2017 when a group of journalists, filmmakers and activists entered deserted Islamic State prisons to collect evidence. We talk to two journalists behind the project as their archive launches to the public. Amer Matar is Director of the ISIS Prisons Museum, Robin Yassin-Kassab is its Chief English Editor, and Yvonne McDermott Rees is Professor of Law at Swansea University. Also on the show, the journalist who received an apology from Anne Hathaway. Kjersti Flaa reveals why the Hollywood actor got in touch after her “cringeworthy” interview went viral. Presenters: Katie Razzall and Ros Atkins Producer: Simon Richardson Assistant Producer: Lucy Wai
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  • Welcome to the explanation from the BBC World Service.

  • This is Ros Atkins and Katie Razzle and this is the Media Show.

  • We're here to explain the trends behind the fast changing media landscape.

  • This week, a new archive documenting the horrific treatment of captives by the Islamic State group.

  • We speak to the journalists behind the project.

  • We're also going to hear from a journalist who's received an apology from the Hollywood star Anne Hathaway.

  • It's all to do with an interview from 2012 which has now gone viral.

  • We'll hear the full story.

  • This year marks 10 years since the so called Islamic State declared its caliphate.

  • And now a group of journalists is seeking to preserve evidence of what the Islamic State group did in order to hold it to account.

  • As is deserted these sites, they left behind thousands of artifacts.

  • The ISIS Prisons Museum project was created to collect and archive this evidence.

  • To find out more, we spoke to the director of the museum, Amer Mata, and discovered his personal reason for setting up the project.

  • In 2013, ISIS kidnapped my brother, his name Mohammad Duran Matar.

  • He was a cameraman filming the city and like the fight between the society and ISIS and the different Islamic group in the city when he was doing that, ISIS kidnapped him the first time in the summer.

  • And we didn't have any information about him since then until now.