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[00:00:17] sitting with his head
[00:00:19] this sky, we saw this clean
[00:00:48] If someone dies next to you, you are not allowed to approach them or do anything.
[00:00:51] They just died next to you. A person, even if you know them, even if
[00:00:54] they are dear to you, it's forbidden. You are stuck to this tile and cannot move
[00:00:57] from it.
[00:01:00] No staying up, no. They see us For example, in the pliers, they would pull your
[00:01:04] nails out
[00:01:05] like that.
[00:01:09] but he would say, "I saw them on When he passed away, two of us carried him to
[00:01:13] the car. When he reached the car, the policeman started singing and dancing,
[00:01:16] then we left.
[00:01:20] I tell him, "You are the supervisor of the cell." I don't say
[00:01:24] it out loud. "I'll bring you food, you eat. If I don't bring you food, you don't eat. You
[00:01:28] quickly, and he would say, "Hands up and head against came here to die."
[00:01:33] The policemen opened the door and said, "Congratulations, young men! We are the Free Syrian Army, and the regime has fallen.
[00:01:38] we first entered, we started to feel something crawling on You are free now." We were hiding in the cell, no one came near them, and we didn't dare to approach them. We didn't believe
[00:01:42] them at all.
[00:01:49] By God, the snow would reach the My name is Ali Ahmed Al-Zawareh, from the town of Beit Saber, in the Damascus countryside. I was arrested
[00:01:54] Most people would get diarrhea because of in 2020, at the beginning of 2020. Of course, I was arrested at
[00:01:57] a checkpoint. I mean, I was at the checkpoint
[00:02:01] and they arrested me immediately.
[00:02:03] When I arrived at the branch, I learned that my charge was
[00:02:06] being a Muslim Brotherhood member. This was
[00:02:09] the charge. Of course, I was 31 years old, born in
[00:02:12] 1994. I think I was 25
[00:02:16] and fall to the ground. He convulsed years old. I stayed in Sednaya for five years. I was released at the time of
[00:02:20] the liberation.
[00:02:22] two of us carried him and took him to Of course, when they arrested me, they took me to the checkpoint.
[00:02:26] Of course, the military police took me.
[00:02:29] So... they took me to Kafr Sousse, to the security
[00:02:32] square. I went to 48, slept one night, then
[00:02:36] they put me in 77. I stayed there for about 55
[00:02:40] They gathered everything in the cells, and we went up to days.
[00:02:42] After that, they took me to Palestine Branch.
[00:02:46] I stayed in Palestine Branch for about five months.
[00:03:04] During my time at the Palestine Branch, there was a disease, and they no longer
[00:03:08] approached the prisoners. They started implementing
[00:03:11] preventative measures, and no one entered or left the prison.
[00:03:14] Then, when the disease ended, I left
[00:03:17] Palestine. I mean, in every branch we entered, they would tell
[00:03:21] us that we were being released, that we were free. They would mess with our minds
[00:03:24] so that we would remain
[00:03:26] fainted, he couldn't bear it anymore, I mean, from disciplined within the branch we were in.
[00:03:30] We were surprised that we were taken out and put into a large car. Of course, we were blindfolded
[00:03:34] We thought it was business as usual, a chain gang coming to and handcuffed. They put us picture on in a large car, all in solitary cells. It was the first time I saw a car like
[00:03:38] that, honestly. Of course, during that period,
[00:03:41] everyone, I mean, all the prisoners, were full of
[00:03:45] lice and scabies and so on. It was a terrible situation.
[00:03:48] They kept us for about two hours in the sun.
[00:03:52] It was an indescribable feeling.
[00:03:55] We finally arrived here in
[00:03:58] Sednaya. Of course, we didn't know we were
[00:04:01] in Sednaya or coming to Sednaya. We didn't know anything. You are blindfolded
[00:04:05] and handcuffed, you don't know where you are going. But I spent
[00:04:08] Of course, when we entered
[00:04:09] it. Some people faint from the longest time in the Palestine branch.
[00:04:12] The situation was very bad.
[00:04:23] and tell me, "Lie down on your stomach and put your head on As soon as you enter,
[00:04:24] the tile!" We would run quickly to they strip you of your clothes.
[00:04:26] the stomach and lie down with our heads on You take off your clothes and go in. You shower
[00:04:30] to maintain hygiene when you first arrive. But of course,
[00:04:34] there was unbelievable filth. Everyone had
[00:04:37] boils, scabies, and lice. It was indescribable.
[00:04:41] And medicine there, if you got sick, from a medical
[00:04:45] perspective, they would open the shutter every
[00:04:47] he would hit us and kick us until morning and the head of the ward would ask, "Who is sick? Who is dying?"
[00:04:51] It was forbidden, for example, for someone to be sick
[00:04:54] with a cold or any
[00:04:57] tire, that's well-known, disease. There was no such thing as being sick, only those who were dying, specifically.
[00:05:00] From the medical treatment perspective, there was no treatment.
[00:05:03] Of course, if someone got sick, they died. They died,
[00:05:06] that's it.
[00:05:10] people, everyone telling us, "Thank God for your Of course, regarding the prison and sleep, you wake up in the morning. They make you do
[00:05:13] exercises in the ward, you have to run and so on,
[00:05:17] to keep the prisoners moving.
[00:05:20] Then comes breakfast. What
[00:05:24] kind of breakfast? There's no breakfast. I mean, some
[00:05:27] people would sometimes get an egg, sometimes not. If eggs came,
[00:05:30] olives, for example, a few olives, there weren't three, four, five olives.
[00:05:34] Just a few, if you were lucky. Of course, bread, perhaps
[00:05:37] a loaf and a half, or three quarters of a loaf for the whole day.
[00:05:41] It was up to them, there was nothing fixed. The food was
[00:05:44] extremely bad. Lunch, too, when lunch came, of course, from
[00:05:48] breakfast time to lunch time, you had to sit in a military
[00:05:51] posture, as they called it. You were not allowed
[00:05:54] to move. And of course, the head of the ward,
[00:05:57] like an assistant, had full authority to punish however he wanted.
[00:06:01] He would do
[00:06:03] whatever he wanted. If someone, for example, rested their head
[00:06:07] like this, their number would be written on the wall.
[00:06:11] Once your number was written, you were already broken.
[00:06:14] If you, for example,
[00:06:17] dozed off, they would immediately write
[00:06:20] your number. If you talked to your cellmate, they would write your number.
[00:06:24] I mean, you were absolutely not allowed to move. You sat in a military posture from
[00:06:27] breakfast time to
[00:06:29] lunch time. They would only give you a break from 12
[00:06:33] to 1 o'clock. They would tell you that you had this hour
[00:06:36] to sleep. Of course, no noise was allowed, and you had to remain disciplined.
[00:06:40] They would give you this hour, and from exhaustion and fatigue, you would immediately
[00:06:43] fall asleep on the spot. And of course, everyone slept on top of each other, there was no
[00:06:46] assigned tile for you. You were sitting on the tile. They would tell you, "Everyone has
[00:06:49] a tile." You know what I mean? Because of the large number of people in the ward,
[00:06:53] you might not even get a tile, you know what I mean? Everyone was sleeping
[00:06:56] on top of each other. It was very difficult. And for example, the person in front
[00:07:00] of you had boils and scabies, and they were sitting on you. So
[00:07:03] it was also contagious. I mean, if the person in front of you was sick, you were definitely
[00:07:07] infected,
[00:07:07] absolutely.
[00:07:12] Once we were sitting in the Palestine branch,
[00:07:15] I mean, we were sitting from breakfast until lunch. Of course, this period,
[00:07:19] as I told you, was a military posture, no
[00:07:22] sound was allowed. Suddenly, we heard a young man
[00:07:26] next to us scream
[00:07:28] like this, his body tightened, then
[00:07:32] within seconds, he was gone. Of course, from
[00:07:35] the fatigue and exhaustion, and the cold, I mean, there was nothing
[00:07:38] under you. You were sitting on the cold tiles.
[00:07:42] There was nothing under you.
[00:07:45] Suddenly, you couldn't move there because you weren't allowed
[00:07:49] to get up from your place. The head of the ward and his
[00:07:53] two assistants came. They told him that he came
[00:07:56] to see him. He was gone.
[00:07:58] He was. So he knocked on the door
[00:08:02] and communicated with the assistant
[00:08:04] there. He came. Two or three of us
[00:08:08] carried him out. Out.
[00:08:12] Of course, it's forbidden. If someone dies next to you, you are not allowed to approach them or do anything.
[00:08:16] I mean, if a person dies next to you, even if you know them,
[00:08:19] even if they are dear to you, no, it's forbidden. You are stuck to this tile, you can't move
[00:08:22] from it.
[00:08:28] Now, there is torture in the ward, within the ward, there is torture
[00:08:32] if you violate the rules in the ward, and there is torture if you are taken
[00:08:35] for interrogation. There are three types of torture, and of course,
[00:08:39] all of them are difficult. Within the ward.
[00:08:42] For example, if you made a sound, or if you
[00:08:46] moved during your session, or fell asleep
[00:08:48] at a time other than sleeping time, and your
[00:08:52] number was recorded, the assistant would come, for example, open the shutter,
[00:08:55] look at the wall, number so and so and so and so, those whose numbers are on the wall, come out to me.
[00:08:59] You go outside. He will have a green
[00:09:03] hose, they call it the green Ibrahimi. He will tell
[00:09:06] you to put your head on the ground and your feet up, and he starts
[00:09:09] hitting you, hitting, hitting, hitting, and with intensity, continuously, not
[00:09:12] just one or two
[00:09:14] hits.
[00:09:16] You keep begging them, "For God's sake, sir!" People start crying from the beating, they can't bear
[00:09:21] the beating. Why? Because it's a severe beating. Sometimes it's not
[00:09:24] just him, sometimes there are three with hoses, and they start beating
[00:09:28] you.
[00:09:31] It's a terrible thing. This is inside the ward. And sometimes
[00:09:34] he tells you to put your hand out of the shutter. You are in the ward, you put your hand out of the shutter, and he starts
[00:09:38] hitting you with the green Ibrahimi. He tells you, "If you don't
[00:09:41] pull your hand back, I'll pull it back. Consider yourself dead."
[00:09:45] And out of fear, you don't dare to pull your
[00:09:47] hand back. I mean, people's
[00:09:50] hands would really break. I mean, once you put your hand out, your hand
[00:09:54] is broken, it's crippled. And among the types
[00:09:57] of punishment, for example,
[00:10:00] when you go for interrogation, for example, they used to
[00:10:04] pull out your fingernails
[00:10:07] with pliers. There was the
[00:10:10] the shabah. They would pour cold water on you, for example,
[00:10:13] and beat you, for example, and starve
[00:10:16] you in, for example, or if you were in the cell,
[00:10:19] they would starve you and deprive you of food and water.
[00:10:23] Then the punishment would come, which is even more severe.
[00:10:27] I mean, I went through the branches, and the branches were harsh
[00:10:30] and severe and so on, but the hardest thing I've ever seen in my life,
[00:10:33] of course, is Sednaya prison. This
[00:10:36] was the hardest moment I went through.
[00:10:40] And the longest period, five years in Sednaya, they were
[00:10:44] very difficult. I mean, I used to hear about Sednaya prison, but I didn't
[00:10:47] expect to see what I would see.
[00:10:50] From the moment we entered Sednaya, our psychological
[00:10:53] state was destroyed.
[00:10:58] Of course, when we first arrived at Sednaya,
[00:11:02] we were in a car, a car full of solitary cells, and we were blindfolded
[00:11:05] and handcuffed. When we arrived,
[00:11:09] we didn't know where we were.
[00:11:12] Suddenly, we started hearing shouting and curses, "Come
[00:11:16] on, unlock the chains!" I mean, take off the blindfolds
[00:11:20] and so on, and put your head on the ground.
[00:11:24] And your hands over your eyes. I mean, in that position.
[00:11:25] We did this position and went down, not knowing
[00:11:29] anything. We couldn't even see. You don't see anything except, as they say,
[00:11:33] the tile in front of you. And there were
[00:11:36] curses, and they started hitting us with batons until we arrived here.
[00:11:40] I mean, the policeman would kick you, for example, you would get hit with a baton, and then
[00:11:44] he would say, "Come on, go in here, all of you! Come on, everyone go in
[00:11:48] here, go in here and take off your clothes!" We would go in
[00:11:53] the wall!" I mean, like this.
[00:11:55] This position. Of course, here you would be naked,
[00:11:59] and he would say, "Your identity up!" You would do this with your identity
[00:12:03] and raise it.
[00:12:05] Of course, we couldn't see what was behind us, but we were hearing noise. We didn't
[00:12:09] know where we were. So he would say, "Whoever says their name, come
[00:12:12] to me!"
[00:12:15] So he said, "Ali Zawareh." So I said, "Yes, sir," and came to him in this
[00:12:19] position. Of course, as I
[00:12:22] was coming, I started to see policemen in boots. Military boots
[00:12:25] and batons, until he told me, "Come closer, come closer!" There was a table
[00:12:29] here in this place
[00:12:31] like this, and a doctor was sitting on it. Of course, I didn't know he was a doctor. Of course, he was
[00:12:35] an officer, but they called him a doctor. And there were two
[00:12:39] policemen here with batons, and here were two policemen, and even behind
[00:12:42] the officer, there were other policemen, of course, scattered in the place
[00:12:45] with the inmates with me. He asked me my full name
[00:12:49] and asked me this and that. Of course, I was in this position. He told me,
[00:12:53] "What diseases do you have?" And he started asking me questions.
[00:12:56] Then, of course, in this position until the doctor
[00:12:59] finished with me. Of course, he asked me a set
[00:13:01] of questions.
[00:13:03] And when he finished with me, of course, he was asking me. Of course, here next
[00:13:07] to me, I wasn't looking much in this position, and I had my head
[00:13:10] down. So they would take the young men and beat them
[00:13:13] with batons. I mean, when a young man
[00:13:16] next to me, a detainee, was there, the police were stepping on him, stepping on him
[00:13:19] and killing him. What did he do? I don't know, but he was getting beaten. I
[00:13:23] didn't know what was happening.
[00:13:26] After he finished with me, two others like me answered the same
[00:13:30] questions. And when they finished, he said, "Take these to cell number
[00:13:33] so and so." And we went down to the cells, and on my way,
[00:13:36] I also saw a detainee being beaten with a baton, a detainee being
[00:13:40] stepped on, a detainee being spun on the tire.
[00:13:44] Here, the sound echoed. We thought it was gunshots, not a
[00:13:46] tire. Because of the force of the blow, we thought they were
[00:13:50] shooting him, by God.
[00:13:51] By God.
[00:14:00] When we arrived here, there were detainees here, they were being beaten.
[00:14:03] And of course, the police with us were hitting us with batons
[00:14:07] and kicking us. When we arrived here, of course, we were
[00:14:10] in this position. He would put his foot on our backs
[00:14:14] and kick us down. We would go tumbling down the stairs and break
[00:14:17] our bones, of course, this is initially, other than the batons. We arrived
[00:14:21] here, and they would tell us, "Get up quickly, and your hands over your eyes! I don't want to see your eyes!" And he would hit
[00:14:25] us and say, "Come on, follow me!" There was one in front and a policeman in front
[00:14:28] of us, and a policeman behind us hitting and kicking us. We kept coming in this
[00:14:32] position, of course, until he told
[00:14:35] us, "Sit with your heads on the tile here."
[00:14:37] We went down, sitting with our heads on the tile.
[00:14:41] Of course, there were four of us, and there was one fat guy among us. We
[00:14:45] were all skinny. So he tells the policeman next to him, "This
[00:14:48] one is good for a beating." He told him, "You are the head
[00:14:52] of the cell, you are the head of the cell, right?
[00:14:55] You are responsible for everything. If I bring you food, you eat. If I don't bring
[00:14:59] you food, you don't eat. And you don't ask about anything, okay?" He said, "Yes, sir."
[00:15:02] And he started hitting him about 20 times with the baton. He told him,
[00:15:05] "Reception, come on, one by one inside!" We would go in,
[00:15:09] he would hit us with the baton and kick us,
[00:15:12] we went in. We went into the cell.
[00:15:16] Of course, this was our first step in the cell. We went quickly to the toilet. As soon as
[00:15:19] he closed the door, we couldn't see anything.
[00:15:23] There was no light, no air,
[00:15:25] not even air to breathe. There was none. And the toilet situation was
[00:15:29] deadly, the smell was deadly.
[00:15:32] And we were naked, of course, because they stripped us of our clothes outside when
[00:15:35] they received us. We were without clothes. I mean, we went
[00:15:38] in here. He closed
[00:15:40] the door on us. About two
[00:15:44] hours passed until they brought us food. We thought it was food that
[00:15:47] could be eaten. When the policeman opened the door
[00:15:51] on us, of course, there were three of us hiding inside, and the supervisor was the only one who was
[00:15:55] on the tile. The policeman opened the cell door,
[00:15:58] and the supervisor he had appointed came out to take
[00:16:02] the food. So he wanted to take the food, and the policeman told him, "Stay."
[00:16:05] He told him, "Stay, sit with your head on the tile." And he started hitting him with the baton, hitting, hitting, hitting,
[00:16:09] and kicking and shouting. The supervisor couldn't even walk
[00:16:13] from the beating. And suddenly, he didn't expect what was happening.
[00:16:17] He was hit, and suddenly he... I don't know
[00:16:19] what happened to him, he couldn't move, he couldn't comprehend what happened to him, I don't know. So the policeman
[00:16:23] shouted at us, "Two of you come and drag him out!"
[00:16:26] So the two of us inside didn't dare to go out. Two of us come and drag him out? We
[00:16:29] didn't dare to go out. Oh, I don't know what he started swearing and insulting.
[00:16:33] I mean, with heavy words, no one replied to him out of fear. He came in
[00:16:37] and broke us. So he started hitting us inside, hitting us
[00:16:40] until we didn't dare to go out. Finally,
[00:16:43] he calmed down a bit and eased up on us until we were able
[00:16:47] to drag him. We stayed for five days
[00:16:49] in the cell. Of course, one usually stays longer, I mean, any
[00:16:53] detainee who comes new to Sednaya, I mean, stays for a long
[00:16:56] time, maybe 15 days, maybe a month, depending on your luck.
[00:17:00] But we stayed for five days because our colleague
[00:17:03] died. You know, there were no clothes, a lot
[00:17:07] of cold. We were sitting here, nothing to warm us, and very little
[00:17:10] food. And beatings and a bad psychological state would kill you. I mean, when
[00:17:16] our bodies. It was lice. And after a while, the next day,
[00:17:19] the third day, scabies also started. I mean, you started to have a lot
[00:17:22] of things. Hunger and thirst. No water
[00:17:26] either. Two or three days without water. If they brought us water, we would
[00:17:30] drink it, but just to drink, not more. On the fifth
[00:17:34] day, a person died with us due to the bad conditions we were living in.
[00:17:38] Hunger, cold, thirst, killing, and beating. And also, every time
[00:17:42] a policeman passed, for example, every two or three hours, he would come in to amuse himself with us, open the cell
[00:17:45] door, come in, and start beating us. "Two of you come out to me!" No one dared to come out
[00:17:49] because whoever came out would get broken and wouldn't return. On the fifth day,
[00:17:53] our colleague died.
[00:17:56] So when he died,
[00:18:00] the car. When he reached the car, the policeman started singing
[00:18:03] and dancing, and then left.
[00:18:10] We came out of the cells until we reached here. Of course, here, the first thing
[00:18:14] they did was receive us with pistols.
[00:18:18] the pistol range, then they brought us here.
[00:18:21] I mean, we were entering, of course, in this position, not
[00:18:24] seeing anything but the tile in front of us, and they didn't want to see our eyes.
[00:18:27] And without anything, they were hitting and kicking us until we arrived here.
[00:18:31] We were walking, there were detainees, I mean, we saw
[00:18:35] them, detainees sitting
[00:18:38] with their heads on the tile and their legs up, and they were being put on the tire and beaten.
[00:18:41] And we were walking, we would find people being tortured here,
[00:18:45] and we were walking, detainees, for example, being taken to another ward and beaten
[00:18:49] with batons. I mean, we lived, I mean, our psychological state
[00:18:52] here was terrible because we were seeing what was
[00:18:56] happening, and we were waiting for our turn to come,
[00:18:59] until we arrived here. A young man
[00:19:04] what happened. He fainted here.
[00:19:07] They are against the idea of seeing someone sick or fainting,
[00:19:10] so three policemen attacked him and started beating him
[00:19:13] with batons. They kept hitting him, hitting him. I don't know what
[00:19:17] happened to the young man, he couldn't move anymore. They left
[00:19:20] him on the ground. We kept going and they kept hitting
[00:19:23] us and telling us, "The same thing will happen to you
[00:19:26] as happened to your friend." Of course, here our psychological state was
[00:19:29] zero until we reached ward number
[00:19:33] five. So he told us, "Everyone sit with your heads on the tile here."
[00:19:37] We went down, sitting with our heads on the tile in front of the ward. Of course, we didn't know that this was our ward, or
[00:19:41] anything. This was ward number five.
[00:19:46] the ward, of course, your hands over your eyes, and we entered
[00:19:49] in this position. There were two policemen standing here, other than the policemen scattered in the wing, of course, beating
[00:19:53] the detainees. So when we were here, one would hit me with a baton, and another
[00:19:56] would kick me inside,
[00:20:04] the tile until all the detainees were done.
[00:20:08] This is the first period. Then they would start, for example, a policeman would come in and pick, for example,
[00:20:11] he would pat my shoulder and say, "Come
[00:20:14] out to me!" He would pat you, you, you, "Come out!"
[00:20:18] They would come out. "Sit with your head on the tile and your legs up!"
[00:20:21] And the tire would start here. The tire here is mandatory. This is different from the beating
[00:20:25] we got. There is something called a tire, an reception tire, this is what
[00:20:27] they call it. So it starts in turns
[00:20:31] until everyone is done.
[00:20:34] Then, when we finished the tire, we came in. He would look, for example,
[00:20:37] and choose who was healthy enough to take a beating or
[00:20:39] so on. Or for example, if we were all weak, he would ask who
[00:20:43] was educated, who had a degree. The one with the higher degree, he would tell him, "Come to me,
[00:20:47] sit with your head on the tile here."
[00:20:50] Sitting with your head on the tile, the policeman would stand here at his head, meaning his head
[00:20:54] would be at the policeman's feet here. He would tell him, "You
[00:20:57] are the supervisor of the ward." He wouldn't say, "You are
[00:21:01] the ward." He would say this, "You will be in charge of
[00:21:04] the ward. If I bring you food, you eat. If I don't bring
[00:21:07] you food, you don't eat. You came here
[00:21:10] to die."
[00:21:20] A story happened to us where a person died, and the
[00:21:23] supervisor here came out. I mean, the police formed a circle
[00:21:26] around him and started beating and kicking him
[00:21:29] until the supervisor, I mean, perhaps he lived for three days
[00:21:32] and then died. He couldn't eat, they didn't feed him,
[00:21:36] and there was no medicine, and the beating was
[00:21:39] complete. And indeed, his body came out with him.
[00:21:41] And of course, there is a camera here, look, here
[00:21:45] it is. This camera is on us 24 hours a day.
[00:21:50] on the cameras. No noise is allowed. And of course, there were
[00:21:53] punishments that came from the camera, like he would come in at any moment and say, "I saw two of you staying up late."
[00:21:57] There was no one staying up late,
[00:21:59] the camera. I want two people who stayed up late." If the
[00:22:03] supervisor didn't bring out two people, the supervisor would get a beating. Sometimes the policeman
[00:22:07] would come, for example, when we brought in the food, for example, the supervisor would go out to take
[00:22:10] the food, and the policeman would put his foot on the bread, for example,
[00:22:14] like this gesture, meaning that there was no bread, he would take the bowls
[00:22:17] and leave, I mean, from the severity of the beating they got, and the killing, but no one cared
[00:22:21] about that. I mean, you would see your friend getting beaten, you would see your friend
[00:22:25] dead, you would see your friend, that's it. Your only concern was to eat and drink. This, but
[00:22:28] the enemy of it, is to know that you are dead. By God, I mean, our psychological
[00:22:32] state was completely shattered. And by God, I remember when it snowed,
[00:22:36] the snow would reach here at the net.
[00:22:39] net, and there was nothing to warm us, even at night.
[00:22:44] the cold. I mean, you would find most of the ward, everyone, everyone had diarrhea
[00:22:48] because of the cold, and there was nothing to warm you, and there was no medicine to take to stop
[00:22:52] the diarrhea. And food was non-existent. As I told you, it was completely absent. We would get
[00:22:56] a little bit of bulgur, and you would get a loaf, a loaf and a half, three
[00:22:58] quarters. And at first, when we got eggs, for example,
[00:23:02] we would sit at the table, for example, I would divide the egg into three
[00:23:06] or four. The egg would be divided into four. For example, if you know how to do
[00:23:09] this, that's it, I've had my breakfast. This
[00:23:12] was for the food, it was bad. For the water, too, the water would be cut off from us.
[00:23:16] And of course, you weren't allowed to ask for water. When we used to ask for water,
[00:23:22] the whole ward, I mean, the five policemen would enter and they want water. Instead of bringing us water, they would enter
[00:23:26] and kill us, break us completely, and leave us for two days
[00:23:29] until they brought us water. Or if they had some mercy on us, for example, the
[00:23:33] supervisor would tell him, "Carry the bowl, come." The supervisor would carry the bowl
[00:23:37] and go, for example, to another ward, fill water, and come back. Of course,
[00:23:40] during this process, the police here were beating us, and the police
[00:23:43] accompanying the supervisor were also beating the supervisor. I mean, we were either going
[00:23:47] to die of hunger and thirst, or they would open the door and come. We didn't want anything from them.
[00:24:06] On the day of liberation, of course, I was sleeping here. This is where I would vomit. And these
[00:24:09] are the clothes, this is the sweater I used to wear in the cold, and I used to wear
[00:24:13] this with it. You see, a thicker sweater than the other, and we didn't understand the cold so much.
[00:24:17] I was sleeping here.
[00:24:20] We heard a noise in the prison.
[00:24:24] the prison and so on, they were bored and beating them and so on, dealing
[00:24:27] with them. So after a while, after fifteen minutes, the sound got
[00:24:31] louder. The sound was inside the prison,
[00:24:34] outside the prison, in the offices, then the sound was in the
[00:24:38] offices. We thought the police were bored with each other or something. The
[00:24:42] sound was in our pistol range.
[00:24:45] We didn't understand. The sound was very loud, and it wasn't clear what the sound was.
[00:24:48] I mean, we started hearing "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) and we started
[00:24:52] hearing the sound of Russian in the prison. I mean, here
[00:24:55] we said, "This is a riot." No, I mean, our psychological
[00:24:58] state, we thought they were going to shoot us, that's it. I mean, we used
[00:25:02] to know that once there was a riot in the prison, the whole prison was finished.
[00:25:06] Until they reached our wing, they opened the wing, they reached
[00:25:09] here, they opened the shutters and said, "Congratulations, young men! We are the Free
[00:25:13] Syrian Army, and the regime has fallen. You are free." Now, we were
[00:25:17] hiding in the cell, no one came near them, we didn't dare to approach them. We didn't believe
[00:25:20] them at all. We thought they were playing a trick on us.
[00:25:23] I mean, until he shot the lock of the door, opened
[00:25:26] the door, and came to us and said, "Young
[00:25:29] men, we are the Free Syrian Army, and the regime has fallen." And he started
[00:25:33] reassuring us until we felt relieved, our hearts calmed down a bit,
[00:25:36] until we had the strength
[00:25:40] to reach the door, because honestly, we didn't have the strength. Our psychological state was
[00:25:43] zero, you know what I mean? So we couldn't
[00:25:46] walk. I mean, something happened suddenly. I mean, the Muslims used
[00:25:50] to bring us dinner. The police advised us, around
[00:25:53] 3:30 AM, that the regime had fallen. So when we went outside,
[00:25:56] we saw this and that, we saw
[00:26:00] safety," and so on, and reassuring us. We walked
[00:26:02] a little, we kept going up to the pistol range, we started to see
[00:26:06] people, the prisoners, our friends, all coming out. Here we started to
[00:26:09] believe and disbelieve.
[00:26:12] Until we reached the prison gate, we reached the prison gate.
[00:26:16] Here, I mean, we went down the big stairs, we saw
[00:26:21] air, this air that we had been deprived of for five years. I mean, we
[00:26:25] just wished to breathe clean air, to see the ground, the sky, the people.
[00:26:28] The people. I mean, here, and it was
[00:26:32] night, and we started walking. Where were we walking? By God, we didn't know. I mean,
[00:26:36] we just got out of prison. The joy was indescribable.
[00:26:40] By God, the joy was
[00:26:41] indescribable.
[00:26:47] I mean, we came out of prison, we didn't know the prison because we were living in those conditions and so on,
[00:26:51] but we hadn't seen its terrain and features
[00:26:54] and so on. So when I returned here, I discovered that we were
[00:26:57] living in a place that couldn't be worse than that. How we were
[00:27:01] living here, I don't know. I mean, thank God that the Lord of the Worlds was
[00:27:05] keeping us alive. Thank God.
[00:27:07] So it was a great joy, thank God, that we got out
[00:27:11] and were free from this prison, us and the sites. And thank God that all
[00:27:14] the prisoners of Syria were liberated in this liberation. And it was a great
[00:27:18] joy for us
[00:27:19] and for our families.
[00:27:25] Even
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