After the report of Amnesty International with the title “Human Slaughterhouse”, here you are the story of an ex-prisoner in a regime arresting center in Adra prison in Damascus where she suffered from methodological torturing means.
24-year old Rama who was arrested in an ambush on the road leading to her house in Homs where she spent two years behind prison bars, suffered from barbaric methodological means; she said: “Since the moment I arrived the prison, they used to crucify me for two hours a day, then jailers hit me with a big stick. They also skinned me, which was untellable means of torture”.
After jailors finished skinning her, she was sent to her cell as blood covered her whole body for going through different kinds of torture. As she heard their voices again coming closer, Rama pulled herself to a corner with tears in her eyes; “Only who has gone through, know what it is really like”, she said. It is extremely difficult to know that one’s crime in his homeland is that he is a citizen.
There in that dark place, man lives dying bitterness way more tough than bitterness of pain.
Rama added with pauses separating her speech, she kept shattering for the dire suffering she was remembering, she said: “ Before my ear heard them calling me, I used to cry, where my heart beats got fast fearing another investigating session in which I would be forced to face new methods of torture and pain. Once a time I entered torturing room at noon and did not leave it till the evening .. a jailer confined my feet in a round way as I sat down on something similar to a round dish with column in the center to which my hands were restricted so that my face became adjacent to the column, it was only seconds till they turned on the dish which started to spin, here six men worked on whipping me.. then I came to know what it was like to lose sight and hearing which was extremely painful”.
Then they brought her to the cell in a complete coma where they throw her on the floor. After a while she woke up feeling great pains. At night, she used to suffer from a fever. She is not the only one who has gone through this journey of pain, thousands female and males prisoners are still in prisons where they face jailors who have nothing to do with humanity at all.
Rama has been released few months ago after a long journey of pain. She could not live in her homeland because women like her who are meant to survive and be released from regime prisons, can not consolidate in a society busy with revolution; that is why she decided to live in Turkey.
By Bayan Alahmad
Translated by Sabah Najem
Syrian Press Center
