When detained mother hears screams of her son in another cell

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lutfiya, a woman from Al-Asali district, was arrested in Sahat Al Ashmar with one of her relatives, without committing any offence. There were no demonstrations; the square was empty except for barriers, soldiers and people who were forced to leave their homes.

Like most of the women detainees who were victims of arbitrary arrests, Ms. Lutfiya was not charged with any specific crime, but with insults and allegations. They found no charge but her son's death because of the shelling of their own forces. In detention, Lutfiya met with a large number of female detainees, university students, housewives, and elderly. None of them was involved in opposition activities, but they were forced to write fabricated confessions. They tortured the men in front of the women's cells furthering their humiliation. "The tormented voices still echo in my head," says Lutfiya more than once in our meeting with her. "There is no harsher sight than a mother behind a cell door hearing her son screaming under torture," she said.

This series:

"Syrian women in Assad prisons," a series of testimonies of Syrian women who have lived through the experience of arrest in the prisons of Assad since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in 2011. The series is part of a file, Zaman al-Wasl has chosen to expose to its readers and to the world, about the most terrible experience, the practices of the repressive authority and its security services. The article, the written testimonies, the news, the follow-ups, the leaks, and the documents covered some aspects of this human tragedy, which goes beyond its victim to their surroundings, and surpasses its time to the future of its victims. The first series, "Whining", included some testimonies of Syrian women, buried behind the walls of humid cells, their lives shattered by the cold rusty iron that keeps the air from the dark prison corridors. In this new series, other testimonies and tales of sorrows for a tragedy that was and is still alienates, young and old women, housewives and university graduates, mothers and children, with no crimes committed except for being Syrians, at a time when Syria fell under the rule of a gang and a tyrant.

Zaman Al Wasl