These valleys were originally designated as no-construction zones but over the years, encroachment has taken place and later changes in the law permitted infrastructure projects to be built in the area, he says.
Mr Tice is reported to have briefly escaped his captivity by squeezing through a window in his cell, but was later recaptured. He was also interrogated at least twice by a Syrian government intelligence officer. The incident is believed to have taken place between late 2012 and early 2013.When Assad was ousted in December 2024,
. Two days previously, his mother, Debra Tice, said that a "significant source" had confirmed that he son was alive and being "treated well".But when prisons were emptied after the fall of the government, there was no sign of Mr Tice and his whereabouts are still unknown.The Tice family are aware of the existence of these intelligence files seen by the BBC, as are US authorities, and also a Syrian group that is working to gather information on crimes committed by the Assad regime.
Austin Tice is believed to be one of the longest-held American hostages. His mother Debra and father Marc have led a tireless campaign to highlight their son's disappearance.A former US marine captain, Austin Tice has served in both Iraq and Afghanistan and was a law student at the prestigious Georgetown University in Washington DC.
In 2012 he travelled to Syria to report on the civil war as a freelance journalist.
He vanished into a vast and complex system of detention. The UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Network for Human Rights estimates that 100,000 people disappeared under the Assad regime.Lawler said: "Both Martin and I have been going out to clubs since the early '80s and the '90s were the pinnacle of our clubbing years and where we draw all our inspiration from, so a lot of the exhibitions we do are all born in those clubs, from that culture.
"The photographs are all pre-internet, pre mobile phones, so no-one was taking pictures apart from a few club photographers, they were the only people recording it, so I think it's quite exciting for a young audience to see these photographs."The show includes photography and video by Marc Vallée, Jon Shard, Donald Milne, David Swindells and a film by Tim Brunsden.
Green said the 90s were "a very exciting time for me" when he opened his own club, Smashing "for all the misfits and the oddballs who didn't really fit in anywhere and through that club people like Jarvis Cocker and Blur and Oasis would come and hang out and then they started having huge hits and suddenly our scene exploded"."Once upon a time there were cities where squats were legal, rents affordable and old nightclubs sat empty," the pair said.