Syrian women have been tortured and humiliated in prisons of the Assad regime

Muna Muhammad recalls every small detail he had experienced in the prisons of the Assad regime. He put a plastic bag over my head, and then he hung me on the ceiling upside down,” confesss 30-year-old. And my dog told me she'd put her head down until all the bad thoughts get in the bag,” she remembers.

Muna was a music teacher before she was arrested in 2012 for participating in ports against Syria President Bashar Assad in Deir ez-Zoz. She was released but was again arrested to be sent to a prison in Damascus, reports “DW” Transmission Periscope.

One day her torturer appeared with a firearm. He said, "Muna, where is your heart?" "”, she remembers. I put my hands on my heart, and this is when he destroyed me. ”

For several months Muna was confined to a prison alone, but in some cases there were other prisoners. “One day, they questioned in 16-year-old,” she said. I heard his screams, they were loud, I thought they were gonna kill him. ”

Many women have been sexually abused, Muna said. Hygienic conditions in prison are terrible, she explains.

Exactly how many women are imprisoned in Syria is unknown. But, according to the head of a non-governmental organisation Fadel Abdul Ghan, it is estimated to be about 7 000 prisoners.

In 2017, according to “Amnesty International”, more than 17,000 people have died since 2011 as a result of torture, abuse, and destructive conditions led by the Syrian intelligence service and the Syrian government. More than 13. 000 were executed in Saydnaya military prison in northern Damascus, according to the human rights organisation./Periscopi/