Over 500,000 would die in Syria after a 14-year-old boy was arrested, tortured and beaten for spraying anti-Assad graffiti on his school wall. We tell the story of Mouawiya Syasneh, the boy whose graffiti lit the spark that engulfed Syria.

Now a young man, fighting on the frontline for the Free Syrian Army, Mouawiya admits that had he known what the consequences of his actions would be, he would never have taunted the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad.