(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...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl obtained a picture of a woman detainee Hana’a Abdulatif Khaled, who died under torture, and due to medical negligence in Damascus (Adra) Central Prison. The former detainee Luna al-Agha has revealed that Han’aa, who was born in 1987 in the town of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many young men in the eastern town of Al-Muhasan in Deir Ezzor province have joined the revolution since its early days and heavy prices are still being paid. Muhannad al-Jassim, who left the Journalism school at Damascus University of Damascus, was one of them....

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Aida al-Haj Yousif, the former detainee, tells the story of Umm Osama who was detained while rescuing her wounded son by Assad security in Homs city to be held later in Adra prison over claims she is a terrorist. At the beginning of 2016, after a long journey from...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Aida al-Haj Yousif, a former detainee by the Syrian regime, tells new torture memo about Syrian journalist arrested in 2014 over her covering in Damascus suburbs and since then no reports confirm her release. General amnesty or a reconciliation deal is an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Aida al-Haj Yousif, the former detainee by the Syrian regime, tells new torture memo. Behind the bars of the criminal Prisons of Bashar Assad, time stops, the minutes pass slowly and heavily and the days are all alike. The faces may differ, but the accumulated suffering...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two prominent female activists who were detained by the Air Force intelligence in 2011 have been confirmed dead, according to the Civil Registry department in the town of Douma, northeast of Damascus. Faten Rajab, Physics Scientist, was arrested in 2011 for he...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- When Kenana decided to leave her place of residence in Kuwait to visit her home town in Syria, she did not expect that she would be welcomed by the embrace of prison doors that devoured her just like they devoured hundreds of thousands of innocent people during the war. ...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Aida al-Haj Yousif, the former detainee by the Syrian regime, tells how a Moroccan belly dancer was highly welcomed in the prison. She was arrested in the town of Sayyidah Zaynab, southern Damascus, over links with Shiite militants who were entertaining themselves during...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As French prosecutors issue arrest warrants for three senior regime intelligence, we re-publish a torture memo for two French citizens tortured to death by Assad regime. The warrants included security chief Ali Mamlouk, for alleged collusion in war crimes, legal...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- After a round of dirty talk and swearing at Rima, the warden asked her inmates to throw her out of the cell despite the deadly. Being a member in a family loyal to Bashar al-Assad was a heavy burden on Rima who joined the Syrians dream in freedom and dignity....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- An Austrian court filed a lawsuit against a former general in the Syrian Intelligence who took refuge in Austria in June 2015, over his involvement in torture and abuses against his detainees in eastern raqqa province. Due to numerous criminalization evidence...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- In this memo, Aida al-Haj Yousif, a former detainee, reveals how the Syrian regime used to treat Daesh relatives in 'decent' way, in a shocking behavior for the fellow detainees. It is 5 o’clock, time of central prison of Damascus, known as Adra prison, the time...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The book "When Cells Speak" recounts the stories of 52 martyrs who died under torture in Assad's prisons. Between its pages, the true meaning of the suffering of the martyrs and detainees of the Syrian regime is revealed; they were not merely figures and numbers but they were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In the third part of Aida al-Haj Yousif’s memos, the former female detainee tells how the Syrian security turned the Mother’s Day into a bitter memory.  Mother’s Day feast has eclipsed itself from Syria ever since the outbreak of the revolution against...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- The case of Wafa Najib, former Syrian detainee, is similar to the many cases lived in the brutal conditions of prison where basic inalienable human rights are not respected.  Najib got arrested twice, in both cases she was heavily bombarded with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahmed Hassan, pseudonym, has recently left the jails of the Syrian regime after seven years of arbitrary detention due to his participation in the peaceful demonstrations intended to overthrow Bashar Assad in March 2011. Hassan told Zaman al-Wasl a part of what he saw and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The former detainee Aida al-Haj Yousif, nicknamed: Zina, recounts to ‘Zaman al-Wasl ' a new story which she decides to document for the world; the story of Diana, her cellmate. Diana was arrested while pregnant because her husband was ‘Wanted’ at that time. Under torture, she...