(Syrian Network for Human Rights)- Syrian women’s fundamental rights – whether social, security-related, economic, health or psychological – have deteriorated severely at every level following the Syrian regime’s brutal retaliation against Syrian society in response to the outbreak of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Aida al-Haj Yousif, a former detainee by the Syrian regime, tells new torture memo about Syrian women prisoners. Along with fifteen women prisoners, I was referred to the Damascus-based Counter-Terrorism Court in Feb 14, 2016.  We were with hands...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In this torture memo, Sarah al-Abdullah, 30, tells her suffering after being held by by Daesh (ISIS) and the Syrian regime. After seven months in Adra (Damascus) prison, I used to wish death all the time so that I could get rid of daily humiliation. My name was...

These events are accounted by the former prisoner Aida Hajj Yousif.   In the terrorist wing in Adra central prision near the capital, we woke up on news of intensive bombings in Hama, the city where my kids live. I was unable to communicate with them for a while and I was waiting...