A huge number of Syrian women can be considered to be incarcerated when you look at the Assad regime’s prisons. Minimal is famous about their fate, but people who find a way to escape inform stories of horror. DW’s Julia Hahn reports.
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Torture in Syrian prisons
Syrian refugee recounts ordeal of torture
Muna Muhammad recalls every detail that is tiny. The stench into the cells, the pain sensation, her torturers. “He pulled a black colored synthetic case over my mind after which he hung me personally through the ceiling, mind down,” the 30-year-old claims. The memory nevertheless haunts her. The guard stated he had been likely to leave her hanging through the ceiling until all her “evil ideas land in this case,” she recalls.
Muna had been a music instructor before she was arrested in 2012 for taking part in protests against President Bashar Assad in Deir ez-Zor. She was launched, then rearrested and taken fully to the infamous Military Intelligence Branch 215 facility in Damascus — inmates call it “hell branch” because torture is really an occurrence that is daily.
1 day, her torturer turned up by having a gun that is stun. “He stated, ‘Muna, where is the heart?'” she recalls. “we pointed inside my heart, and that is where he zapped me personally.”
Locked away
For months, Muna ended up being locked up in solitary confinement or loaded as well as other inmates. “One they interrogated a 16-year-old,” she says day. “we heard her scream. It abthereforelutely was so noisy. I was thinking they need to be killing her.”
Lots of women had been sexually abused, Muna states, including that she also encountered the threat of rape if she did not confess.
Muna Muhammad fled to Turkey in 2016
Hygiene conditions during the jail had been a disaster, states Muna, describing that the inmates are not always permitted access to toilets or showers. Continue reading “Syrian ladies tortured and humiliated in Assad regime prisons”