The extraordinary story of Dr. Hussain Shahristani, once Iraq's chief nuclear scientist and now its foremost dissident. In 1980, after refusing to help build a nuclear bomb for Saddam Hussein, Shahristani was banished for life to Baghdad's infamous Abu Graib prison. During his eleven-year imprisonment he managed to escape amid the chaos of the Gulf War. Although offered asylum by both Britain and Canada, Shahristani and his family chose instead to settle in Iran, where they founded an organization to monitor the ongoing human-rights abuses in Iraq. Their reports and videos have kept the world informed about the atrocities resulting from Saddam's secret war against his own people, a war which, this documentary claims, has killed or displaced more than 250,000 since 1991. Produced and directed by Shelley Saywell.
Presented by ITVS.
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