16-10-2013: A young woman in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, which has been the site of some of the war’s fiercest fighting and worst atrocities, said she was arrested by government troops for putting up revolutionary posters. She was partially stripped, blindfolded, and tied to a chair. “Then they said they would pass me from man to man.” At a safe house in Turkey, near the Syrian border, I was introduced to a 25-year-old Sunni woman named Nada whose ordeal was especially horrific because of the length of her detention. “Eight months and three days,” she explained very slowly when I first met her in late spring. (I’ve changed her name here to protect her identity.) A member of a Syrian youth organization allied with rebel forces, she told me she had witnessed and been subjected to vast human-rights abuses, including repeated beatings, while imprisoned by the government. At one point she was hit in the face with such force that her orthodontia [braces on her teeth] broke through her skin.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:45:34 +0000
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