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Dire circumstances are what the Syrian female prisoners along with their children are going through since the first moment of arresting them with no trial or any hope of that, amid absence of Judicial authorities in the scene to reach them offering them aid, where jailing authority works on not allowing any side to interfere.
Their children’s fragile bodies scream out breaking the utter silence of international community, as their mothers in humiliation prisons, call the UN organizations for women and children rights to act.
Former prisoner Rama who has been released 4 months ago, revealed to us the suffering of a prisoner in her cell which was crowded with arrested females with their kids; her name is Rasha and she is aged 32 years from Damascus countryside. Rama said: “Rasha went through all the varied kinds of torture including crossing, beating, pulling nails out and flogging machine in which she was left for two days to be later thrown on the cell floor completely out of conscious, I will never forget her whispers in my ear when she told me that she prefers being tortured to hurting her own little girl by jailers”.
Some Syrian ladies jailed in arresting centers suffer from health problems requiring special medical treatment which is missed, so that their condition get worse due to jailing authority carelessness about those detainees’ basic needs.
Rama narrated to us the story of an arrested woman who had cancer: “For the third day the woman had been tortured including beating, electrocuting, depriving from food and raping without considering her bad health condition”.
What Rama revealed to us regarding the dire circumstances of detained females in regime prison, raises the questions about the case in the other Syrian jails held by regime in Assad tenure. Reports of international facilities pointed out to arbitrary arresting and detaining of thousands persons.
Rama mentioned that most arrested women had nothing to do with revolution, but regime detains them to break the support of the public and break the Syrian community in a manner that is against revolution. With imprisoning their children with them, pressure on them increases; since their childhood will not save them.. everyone behind the bars of the Syrian prisons are missing.
By Bayan Alahmad
Translated by Sabah Najem
Syrian Press Center
Behind Syrian Women Prison Bars.. Missing Even With Kids
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