Crimes as 3D tours. How a group of Syrian journalists and filmmakers demand accountability

It began with the search for a brother that never returned after an arrest made by ISIS. In 2017 a group of Syrian journalists and filmmakers, all exiled by the civil war, started documenting sites of crimes and atrocities with the help of local crews. They collected over 70.000 documents left behind, interviewed over 500 witnesses, and filmed over 100 mass graves and prisons sites in forensic detail.

This material became the basis for a virtual museum, the ISIS Prisons Museum, in which 3D tours reconstruct the crimes of ISIS to contribute to judicial and political processes. In December 2024 the group began to apply their methodology also to the Asads prisons, contributing to the urgent need to address the question of responsibility and accountability for the horrors of the prisons in Syria, with the Syria Prisons Museum.

Can digital technology help justice and closure and educate for non-recurrence?