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00:00:17sitting with his head
00:00:19this sky, we saw this clean
00:00:48If someone dies next to you, you are not allowed to approach them or do anything.
00:00:51They just died next to you. A person, even if you know them, even if
00:00:54they are dear to you, it's forbidden. You are stuck to this tile and cannot move
00:00:57from it.
00:01:00No staying up, no. They see us For example, in the pliers, they would pull your
00:01:04nails out
00:01:05like that.
00:01:09but he would say, "I saw them on When he passed away, two of us carried him to
00:01:13the car. When he reached the car, the policeman started singing and dancing,
00:01:16then we left.
00:01:20I tell him, "You are the supervisor of the cell." I don't say
00:01:24it out loud. "I'll bring you food, you eat. If I don't bring you food, you don't eat. You
00:01:28quickly, and he would say, "Hands up and head against came here to die."
00:01:33The policemen opened the door and said, "Congratulations, young men! We are the Free Syrian Army, and the regime has fallen.
00:01:38we 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
00:01:42them at all.
00:01:49By 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
00:01:54Most people would get diarrhea because of in 2020, at the beginning of 2020. Of course, I was arrested at
00:01:57a checkpoint. I mean, I was at the checkpoint
00:02:01and they arrested me immediately.
00:02:03When I arrived at the branch, I learned that my charge was
00:02:06being a Muslim Brotherhood member. This was
00:02:09the charge. Of course, I was 31 years old, born in
00:02:121994. I think I was 25
00:02:16and fall to the ground. He convulsed years old. I stayed in Sednaya for five years. I was released at the time of
00:02:20the liberation.
00:02:22two of us carried him and took him to Of course, when they arrested me, they took me to the checkpoint.
00:02:26Of course, the military police took me.
00:02:29So... they took me to Kafr Sousse, to the security
00:02:32square. I went to 48, slept one night, then
00:02:36they put me in 77. I stayed there for about 55
00:02:40They gathered everything in the cells, and we went up to days.
00:02:42After that, they took me to Palestine Branch.
00:02:46I stayed in Palestine Branch for about five months.
00:03:04During my time at the Palestine Branch, there was a disease, and they no longer
00:03:08approached the prisoners. They started implementing
00:03:11preventative measures, and no one entered or left the prison.
00:03:14Then, when the disease ended, I left
00:03:17Palestine. I mean, in every branch we entered, they would tell
00:03:21us that we were being released, that we were free. They would mess with our minds
00:03:24so that we would remain
00:03:26fainted, he couldn't bear it anymore, I mean, from disciplined within the branch we were in.
00:03:30We were surprised that we were taken out and put into a large car. Of course, we were blindfolded
00:03:34We 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
00:03:38that, honestly. Of course, during that period,
00:03:41everyone, I mean, all the prisoners, were full of
00:03:45lice and scabies and so on. It was a terrible situation.
00:03:48They kept us for about two hours in the sun.
00:03:52It was an indescribable feeling.
00:03:55We finally arrived here in
00:03:58Sednaya. Of course, we didn't know we were
00:04:01in Sednaya or coming to Sednaya. We didn't know anything. You are blindfolded
00:04:05and handcuffed, you don't know where you are going. But I spent
00:04:08Of course, when we entered
00:04:09it. Some people faint from the longest time in the Palestine branch.
00:04:12The situation was very bad.
00:04:23and tell me, "Lie down on your stomach and put your head on As soon as you enter,
00:04:24the tile!" We would run quickly to they strip you of your clothes.
00:04:26the stomach and lie down with our heads on You take off your clothes and go in. You shower
00:04:30to maintain hygiene when you first arrive. But of course,
00:04:34there was unbelievable filth. Everyone had
00:04:37boils, scabies, and lice. It was indescribable.
00:04:41And medicine there, if you got sick, from a medical
00:04:45perspective, they would open the shutter every
00:04:47he would hit us and kick us until morning and the head of the ward would ask, "Who is sick? Who is dying?"
00:04:51It was forbidden, for example, for someone to be sick
00:04:54with a cold or any
00:04:57tire, that's well-known, disease. There was no such thing as being sick, only those who were dying, specifically.
00:05:00From the medical treatment perspective, there was no treatment.
00:05:03Of course, if someone got sick, they died. They died,
00:05:06that's it.
00:05:10people, everyone telling us, "Thank God for your Of course, regarding the prison and sleep, you wake up in the morning. They make you do
00:05:13exercises in the ward, you have to run and so on,
00:05:17to keep the prisoners moving.
00:05:20Then comes breakfast. What
00:05:24kind of breakfast? There's no breakfast. I mean, some
00:05:27people would sometimes get an egg, sometimes not. If eggs came,
00:05:30olives, for example, a few olives, there weren't three, four, five olives.
00:05:34Just a few, if you were lucky. Of course, bread, perhaps
00:05:37a loaf and a half, or three quarters of a loaf for the whole day.
00:05:41It was up to them, there was nothing fixed. The food was
00:05:44extremely bad. Lunch, too, when lunch came, of course, from
00:05:48breakfast time to lunch time, you had to sit in a military
00:05:51posture, as they called it. You were not allowed
00:05:54to move. And of course, the head of the ward,
00:05:57like an assistant, had full authority to punish however he wanted.
00:06:01He would do
00:06:03whatever he wanted. If someone, for example, rested their head
00:06:07like this, their number would be written on the wall.
00:06:11Once your number was written, you were already broken.
00:06:14If you, for example,
00:06:17dozed off, they would immediately write
00:06:20your number. If you talked to your cellmate, they would write your number.
00:06:24I mean, you were absolutely not allowed to move. You sat in a military posture from
00:06:27breakfast time to
00:06:29lunch time. They would only give you a break from 12
00:06:33to 1 o'clock. They would tell you that you had this hour
00:06:36to sleep. Of course, no noise was allowed, and you had to remain disciplined.
00:06:40They would give you this hour, and from exhaustion and fatigue, you would immediately
00:06:43fall asleep on the spot. And of course, everyone slept on top of each other, there was no
00:06:46assigned tile for you. You were sitting on the tile. They would tell you, "Everyone has
00:06:49a tile." You know what I mean? Because of the large number of people in the ward,
00:06:53you might not even get a tile, you know what I mean? Everyone was sleeping
00:06:56on top of each other. It was very difficult. And for example, the person in front
00:07:00of you had boils and scabies, and they were sitting on you. So
00:07:03it was also contagious. I mean, if the person in front of you was sick, you were definitely
00:07:07infected,
00:07:07absolutely.
00:07:12Once we were sitting in the Palestine branch,
00:07:15I mean, we were sitting from breakfast until lunch. Of course, this period,
00:07:19as I told you, was a military posture, no
00:07:22sound was allowed. Suddenly, we heard a young man
00:07:26next to us scream
00:07:28like this, his body tightened, then
00:07:32within seconds, he was gone. Of course, from
00:07:35the fatigue and exhaustion, and the cold, I mean, there was nothing
00:07:38under you. You were sitting on the cold tiles.
00:07:42There was nothing under you.
00:07:45Suddenly, you couldn't move there because you weren't allowed
00:07:49to get up from your place. The head of the ward and his
00:07:53two assistants came. They told him that he came
00:07:56to see him. He was gone.
00:07:58He was. So he knocked on the door
00:08:02and communicated with the assistant
00:08:04there. He came. Two or three of us
00:08:08carried him out. Out.
00:08:12Of course, it's forbidden. If someone dies next to you, you are not allowed to approach them or do anything.
00:08:16I mean, if a person dies next to you, even if you know them,
00:08:19even if they are dear to you, no, it's forbidden. You are stuck to this tile, you can't move
00:08:22from it.
00:08:28Now, there is torture in the ward, within the ward, there is torture
00:08:32if you violate the rules in the ward, and there is torture if you are taken
00:08:35for interrogation. There are three types of torture, and of course,
00:08:39all of them are difficult. Within the ward.
00:08:42For example, if you made a sound, or if you
00:08:46moved during your session, or fell asleep
00:08:48at a time other than sleeping time, and your
00:08:52number was recorded, the assistant would come, for example, open the shutter,
00:08:55look at the wall, number so and so and so and so, those whose numbers are on the wall, come out to me.
00:08:59You go outside. He will have a green
00:09:03hose, they call it the green Ibrahimi. He will tell
00:09:06you to put your head on the ground and your feet up, and he starts
00:09:09hitting you, hitting, hitting, hitting, and with intensity, continuously, not
00:09:12just one or two
00:09:14hits.
00:09:16You keep begging them, "For God's sake, sir!" People start crying from the beating, they can't bear
00:09:21the beating. Why? Because it's a severe beating. Sometimes it's not
00:09:24just him, sometimes there are three with hoses, and they start beating
00:09:28you.
00:09:31It's a terrible thing. This is inside the ward. And sometimes
00:09:34he 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
00:09:38hitting you with the green Ibrahimi. He tells you, "If you don't
00:09:41pull your hand back, I'll pull it back. Consider yourself dead."
00:09:45And out of fear, you don't dare to pull your
00:09:47hand back. I mean, people's
00:09:50hands would really break. I mean, once you put your hand out, your hand
00:09:54is broken, it's crippled. And among the types
00:09:57of punishment, for example,
00:10:00when you go for interrogation, for example, they used to
00:10:04pull out your fingernails
00:10:07with pliers. There was the
00:10:10the shabah. They would pour cold water on you, for example,
00:10:13and beat you, for example, and starve
00:10:16you in, for example, or if you were in the cell,
00:10:19they would starve you and deprive you of food and water.
00:10:23Then the punishment would come, which is even more severe.
00:10:27I mean, I went through the branches, and the branches were harsh
00:10:30and severe and so on, but the hardest thing I've ever seen in my life,
00:10:33of course, is Sednaya prison. This
00:10:36was the hardest moment I went through.
00:10:40And the longest period, five years in Sednaya, they were
00:10:44very difficult. I mean, I used to hear about Sednaya prison, but I didn't
00:10:47expect to see what I would see.
00:10:50From the moment we entered Sednaya, our psychological
00:10:53state was destroyed.
00:10:58Of course, when we first arrived at Sednaya,
00:11:02we were in a car, a car full of solitary cells, and we were blindfolded
00:11:05and handcuffed. When we arrived,
00:11:09we didn't know where we were.
00:11:12Suddenly, we started hearing shouting and curses, "Come
00:11:16on, unlock the chains!" I mean, take off the blindfolds
00:11:20and so on, and put your head on the ground.
00:11:24And your hands over your eyes. I mean, in that position.
00:11:25We did this position and went down, not knowing
00:11:29anything. We couldn't even see. You don't see anything except, as they say,
00:11:33the tile in front of you. And there were
00:11:36curses, and they started hitting us with batons until we arrived here.
00:11:40I mean, the policeman would kick you, for example, you would get hit with a baton, and then
00:11:44he would say, "Come on, go in here, all of you! Come on, everyone go in
00:11:48here, go in here and take off your clothes!" We would go in
00:11:53the wall!" I mean, like this.
00:11:55This position. Of course, here you would be naked,
00:11:59and he would say, "Your identity up!" You would do this with your identity
00:12:03and raise it.
00:12:05Of course, we couldn't see what was behind us, but we were hearing noise. We didn't
00:12:09know where we were. So he would say, "Whoever says their name, come
00:12:12to me!"
00:12:15So he said, "Ali Zawareh." So I said, "Yes, sir," and came to him in this
00:12:19position. Of course, as I
00:12:22was coming, I started to see policemen in boots. Military boots
00:12:25and batons, until he told me, "Come closer, come closer!" There was a table
00:12:29here in this place
00:12:31like this, and a doctor was sitting on it. Of course, I didn't know he was a doctor. Of course, he was
00:12:35an officer, but they called him a doctor. And there were two
00:12:39policemen here with batons, and here were two policemen, and even behind
00:12:42the officer, there were other policemen, of course, scattered in the place
00:12:45with the inmates with me. He asked me my full name
00:12:49and 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.
00:12:56Then, of course, in this position until the doctor
00:12:59finished with me. Of course, he asked me a set
00:13:01of questions.
00:13:03And when he finished with me, of course, he was asking me. Of course, here next
00:13:07to me, I wasn't looking much in this position, and I had my head
00:13:10down. So they would take the young men and beat them
00:13:13with batons. I mean, when a young man
00:13:16next to me, a detainee, was there, the police were stepping on him, stepping on him
00:13:19and killing him. What did he do? I don't know, but he was getting beaten. I
00:13:23didn't know what was happening.
00:13:26After he finished with me, two others like me answered the same
00:13:30questions. And when they finished, he said, "Take these to cell number
00:13:33so and so." And we went down to the cells, and on my way,
00:13:36I also saw a detainee being beaten with a baton, a detainee being
00:13:40stepped on, a detainee being spun on the tire.
00:13:44Here, the sound echoed. We thought it was gunshots, not a
00:13:46tire. Because of the force of the blow, we thought they were
00:13:50shooting him, by God.
00:13:51By God.
00:14:00When we arrived here, there were detainees here, they were being beaten.
00:14:03And of course, the police with us were hitting us with batons
00:14:07and kicking us. When we arrived here, of course, we were
00:14:10in this position. He would put his foot on our backs
00:14:14and kick us down. We would go tumbling down the stairs and break
00:14:17our bones, of course, this is initially, other than the batons. We arrived
00:14:21here, 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
00:14:25us and say, "Come on, follow me!" There was one in front and a policeman in front
00:14:28of us, and a policeman behind us hitting and kicking us. We kept coming in this
00:14:32position, of course, until he told
00:14:35us, "Sit with your heads on the tile here."
00:14:37We went down, sitting with our heads on the tile.
00:14:41Of course, there were four of us, and there was one fat guy among us. We
00:14:45were all skinny. So he tells the policeman next to him, "This
00:14:48one is good for a beating." He told him, "You are the head
00:14:52of the cell, you are the head of the cell, right?
00:14:55You are responsible for everything. If I bring you food, you eat. If I don't bring
00:14:59you food, you don't eat. And you don't ask about anything, okay?" He said, "Yes, sir."
00:15:02And 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,
00:15:09he would hit us with the baton and kick us,
00:15:12we went in. We went into the cell.
00:15:16Of course, this was our first step in the cell. We went quickly to the toilet. As soon as
00:15:19he closed the door, we couldn't see anything.
00:15:23There was no light, no air,
00:15:25not even air to breathe. There was none. And the toilet situation was
00:15:29deadly, the smell was deadly.
00:15:32And we were naked, of course, because they stripped us of our clothes outside when
00:15:35they received us. We were without clothes. I mean, we went
00:15:38in here. He closed
00:15:40the door on us. About two
00:15:44hours passed until they brought us food. We thought it was food that
00:15:47could be eaten. When the policeman opened the door
00:15:51on us, of course, there were three of us hiding inside, and the supervisor was the only one who was
00:15:55on the tile. The policeman opened the cell door,
00:15:58and the supervisor he had appointed came out to take
00:16:02the food. So he wanted to take the food, and the policeman told him, "Stay."
00:16:05He told him, "Stay, sit with your head on the tile." And he started hitting him with the baton, hitting, hitting, hitting,
00:16:09and kicking and shouting. The supervisor couldn't even walk
00:16:13from the beating. And suddenly, he didn't expect what was happening.
00:16:17He was hit, and suddenly he... I don't know
00:16:19what happened to him, he couldn't move, he couldn't comprehend what happened to him, I don't know. So the policeman
00:16:23shouted at us, "Two of you come and drag him out!"
00:16:26So the two of us inside didn't dare to go out. Two of us come and drag him out? We
00:16:29didn't dare to go out. Oh, I don't know what he started swearing and insulting.
00:16:33I mean, with heavy words, no one replied to him out of fear. He came in
00:16:37and broke us. So he started hitting us inside, hitting us
00:16:40until we didn't dare to go out. Finally,
00:16:43he calmed down a bit and eased up on us until we were able
00:16:47to drag him. We stayed for five days
00:16:49in the cell. Of course, one usually stays longer, I mean, any
00:16:53detainee who comes new to Sednaya, I mean, stays for a long
00:16:56time, maybe 15 days, maybe a month, depending on your luck.
00:17:00But we stayed for five days because our colleague
00:17:03died. You know, there were no clothes, a lot
00:17:07of cold. We were sitting here, nothing to warm us, and very little
00:17:10food. And beatings and a bad psychological state would kill you. I mean, when
00:17:16our bodies. It was lice. And after a while, the next day,
00:17:19the third day, scabies also started. I mean, you started to have a lot
00:17:22of things. Hunger and thirst. No water
00:17:26either. Two or three days without water. If they brought us water, we would
00:17:30drink it, but just to drink, not more. On the fifth
00:17:34day, a person died with us due to the bad conditions we were living in.
00:17:38Hunger, cold, thirst, killing, and beating. And also, every time
00:17:42a policeman passed, for example, every two or three hours, he would come in to amuse himself with us, open the cell
00:17:45door, come in, and start beating us. "Two of you come out to me!" No one dared to come out
00:17:49because whoever came out would get broken and wouldn't return. On the fifth day,
00:17:53our colleague died.
00:17:56So when he died,
00:18:00the car. When he reached the car, the policeman started singing
00:18:03and dancing, and then left.
00:18:10We came out of the cells until we reached here. Of course, here, the first thing
00:18:14they did was receive us with pistols.
00:18:18the pistol range, then they brought us here.
00:18:21I mean, we were entering, of course, in this position, not
00:18:24seeing anything but the tile in front of us, and they didn't want to see our eyes.
00:18:27And without anything, they were hitting and kicking us until we arrived here.
00:18:31We were walking, there were detainees, I mean, we saw
00:18:35them, detainees sitting
00:18:38with their heads on the tile and their legs up, and they were being put on the tire and beaten.
00:18:41And we were walking, we would find people being tortured here,
00:18:45and we were walking, detainees, for example, being taken to another ward and beaten
00:18:49with batons. I mean, we lived, I mean, our psychological state
00:18:52here was terrible because we were seeing what was
00:18:56happening, and we were waiting for our turn to come,
00:18:59until we arrived here. A young man
00:19:04what happened. He fainted here.
00:19:07They are against the idea of seeing someone sick or fainting,
00:19:10so three policemen attacked him and started beating him
00:19:13with batons. They kept hitting him, hitting him. I don't know what
00:19:17happened to the young man, he couldn't move anymore. They left
00:19:20him on the ground. We kept going and they kept hitting
00:19:23us and telling us, "The same thing will happen to you
00:19:26as happened to your friend." Of course, here our psychological state was
00:19:29zero until we reached ward number
00:19:33five. So he told us, "Everyone sit with your heads on the tile here."
00:19:37We 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
00:19:41anything. This was ward number five.
00:19:46the ward, of course, your hands over your eyes, and we entered
00:19:49in this position. There were two policemen standing here, other than the policemen scattered in the wing, of course, beating
00:19:53the detainees. So when we were here, one would hit me with a baton, and another
00:19:56would kick me inside,
00:20:04the tile until all the detainees were done.
00:20:08This is the first period. Then they would start, for example, a policeman would come in and pick, for example,
00:20:11he would pat my shoulder and say, "Come
00:20:14out to me!" He would pat you, you, you, "Come out!"
00:20:18They would come out. "Sit with your head on the tile and your legs up!"
00:20:21And the tire would start here. The tire here is mandatory. This is different from the beating
00:20:25we got. There is something called a tire, an reception tire, this is what
00:20:27they call it. So it starts in turns
00:20:31until everyone is done.
00:20:34Then, when we finished the tire, we came in. He would look, for example,
00:20:37and choose who was healthy enough to take a beating or
00:20:39so on. Or for example, if we were all weak, he would ask who
00:20:43was educated, who had a degree. The one with the higher degree, he would tell him, "Come to me,
00:20:47sit with your head on the tile here."
00:20:50Sitting with your head on the tile, the policeman would stand here at his head, meaning his head
00:20:54would be at the policeman's feet here. He would tell him, "You
00:20:57are the supervisor of the ward." He wouldn't say, "You are
00:21:01the ward." He would say this, "You will be in charge of
00:21:04the ward. If I bring you food, you eat. If I don't bring
00:21:07you food, you don't eat. You came here
00:21:10to die."
00:21:20A story happened to us where a person died, and the
00:21:23supervisor here came out. I mean, the police formed a circle
00:21:26around him and started beating and kicking him
00:21:29until the supervisor, I mean, perhaps he lived for three days
00:21:32and then died. He couldn't eat, they didn't feed him,
00:21:36and there was no medicine, and the beating was
00:21:39complete. And indeed, his body came out with him.
00:21:41And of course, there is a camera here, look, here
00:21:45it is. This camera is on us 24 hours a day.
00:21:50on the cameras. No noise is allowed. And of course, there were
00:21:53punishments that came from the camera, like he would come in at any moment and say, "I saw two of you staying up late."
00:21:57There was no one staying up late,
00:21:59the camera. I want two people who stayed up late." If the
00:22:03supervisor didn't bring out two people, the supervisor would get a beating. Sometimes the policeman
00:22:07would come, for example, when we brought in the food, for example, the supervisor would go out to take
00:22:10the food, and the policeman would put his foot on the bread, for example,
00:22:14like this gesture, meaning that there was no bread, he would take the bowls
00:22:17and leave, I mean, from the severity of the beating they got, and the killing, but no one cared
00:22:21about that. I mean, you would see your friend getting beaten, you would see your friend
00:22:25dead, you would see your friend, that's it. Your only concern was to eat and drink. This, but
00:22:28the enemy of it, is to know that you are dead. By God, I mean, our psychological
00:22:32state was completely shattered. And by God, I remember when it snowed,
00:22:36the snow would reach here at the net.
00:22:39net, and there was nothing to warm us, even at night.
00:22:44the cold. I mean, you would find most of the ward, everyone, everyone had diarrhea
00:22:48because of the cold, and there was nothing to warm you, and there was no medicine to take to stop
00:22:52the diarrhea. And food was non-existent. As I told you, it was completely absent. We would get
00:22:56a little bit of bulgur, and you would get a loaf, a loaf and a half, three
00:22:58quarters. And at first, when we got eggs, for example,
00:23:02we would sit at the table, for example, I would divide the egg into three
00:23:06or four. The egg would be divided into four. For example, if you know how to do
00:23:09this, that's it, I've had my breakfast. This
00:23:12was for the food, it was bad. For the water, too, the water would be cut off from us.
00:23:16And of course, you weren't allowed to ask for water. When we used to ask for water,
00:23:22the whole ward, I mean, the five policemen would enter and they want water. Instead of bringing us water, they would enter
00:23:26and kill us, break us completely, and leave us for two days
00:23:29until they brought us water. Or if they had some mercy on us, for example, the
00:23:33supervisor would tell him, "Carry the bowl, come." The supervisor would carry the bowl
00:23:37and go, for example, to another ward, fill water, and come back. Of course,
00:23:40during this process, the police here were beating us, and the police
00:23:43accompanying the supervisor were also beating the supervisor. I mean, we were either going
00:23:47to die of hunger and thirst, or they would open the door and come. We didn't want anything from them.
00:24:06On the day of liberation, of course, I was sleeping here. This is where I would vomit. And these
00:24:09are the clothes, this is the sweater I used to wear in the cold, and I used to wear
00:24:13this with it. You see, a thicker sweater than the other, and we didn't understand the cold so much.
00:24:17I was sleeping here.
00:24:20We heard a noise in the prison.
00:24:24the prison and so on, they were bored and beating them and so on, dealing
00:24:27with them. So after a while, after fifteen minutes, the sound got
00:24:31louder. The sound was inside the prison,
00:24:34outside the prison, in the offices, then the sound was in the
00:24:38offices. We thought the police were bored with each other or something. The
00:24:42sound was in our pistol range.
00:24:45We didn't understand. The sound was very loud, and it wasn't clear what the sound was.
00:24:48I mean, we started hearing "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) and we started
00:24:52hearing the sound of Russian in the prison. I mean, here
00:24:55we said, "This is a riot." No, I mean, our psychological
00:24:58state, we thought they were going to shoot us, that's it. I mean, we used
00:25:02to know that once there was a riot in the prison, the whole prison was finished.
00:25:06Until they reached our wing, they opened the wing, they reached
00:25:09here, they opened the shutters and said, "Congratulations, young men! We are the Free
00:25:13Syrian Army, and the regime has fallen. You are free." Now, we were
00:25:17hiding in the cell, no one came near them, we didn't dare to approach them. We didn't believe
00:25:20them at all. We thought they were playing a trick on us.
00:25:23I mean, until he shot the lock of the door, opened
00:25:26the door, and came to us and said, "Young
00:25:29men, we are the Free Syrian Army, and the regime has fallen." And he started
00:25:33reassuring us until we felt relieved, our hearts calmed down a bit,
00:25:36until we had the strength
00:25:40to reach the door, because honestly, we didn't have the strength. Our psychological state was
00:25:43zero, you know what I mean? So we couldn't
00:25:46walk. I mean, something happened suddenly. I mean, the Muslims used
00:25:50to bring us dinner. The police advised us, around
00:25:533:30 AM, that the regime had fallen. So when we went outside,
00:25:56we saw this and that, we saw
00:26:00safety," and so on, and reassuring us. We walked
00:26:02a little, we kept going up to the pistol range, we started to see
00:26:06people, the prisoners, our friends, all coming out. Here we started to
00:26:09believe and disbelieve.
00:26:12Until we reached the prison gate, we reached the prison gate.
00:26:16Here, I mean, we went down the big stairs, we saw
00:26:21air, this air that we had been deprived of for five years. I mean, we
00:26:25just wished to breathe clean air, to see the ground, the sky, the people.
00:26:28The people. I mean, here, and it was
00:26:32night, and we started walking. Where were we walking? By God, we didn't know. I mean,
00:26:36we just got out of prison. The joy was indescribable.
00:26:40By God, the joy was
00:26:41indescribable.
00:26:47I mean, we came out of prison, we didn't know the prison because we were living in those conditions and so on,
00:26:51but we hadn't seen its terrain and features
00:26:54and so on. So when I returned here, I discovered that we were
00:26:57living in a place that couldn't be worse than that. How we were
00:27:01living here, I don't know. I mean, thank God that the Lord of the Worlds was
00:27:05keeping us alive. Thank God.
00:27:07So it was a great joy, thank God, that we got out
00:27:11and were free from this prison, us and the sites. And thank God that all
00:27:14the prisoners of Syria were liberated in this liberation. And it was a great
00:27:18joy for us
00:27:19and for our families.
00:27:25Even
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