Freedom from torture clients in the London centre garden

Real voices

First-person accounts from people rebuilding their lives after torture and those supporters and professionals standing with them.

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Fire

“I save the people” - 4-year-old Adonay's story

Timorthy sketch

Medical Legal Report, by Tim

Art work

'Unknown destination' - poem by Nat Nat

Illustration of Yarls Wood Detention Centre

One woman's account of life at Yarlswood detention centre

Art work

Face to face with my jailer in Tesco

Tree

Feeling shame again - 'Unemployment'

hand drumming

“My heart beats through the drum” – healing through drumming

Greenwich Dream Time

London bustop

I stood at the bus stop and cried in despair

Housing provided by the Home Office

Housing providers aren't doing their job – people like me are suffering

Young man from eastern Africa playing guitar

“Music is my medicine”: a survivor's story

Light of Hope

You are helping to bring people back to life

Guitar playing

“Wish you were here” - reaching the top of the mountain

police tear gas Taksim

Torture in Turkey - the fear that overshadows Ronai's life

We wish you peace card

I just hope that one-day peace will be everywhere across the world

London Urban black white

My home - a torture survivor's insight into how they rebuilt their life

door spray paint

Existing, not living

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