Methods of brutal torture of men, women in al-Raei prison

SOLIN RASHID / AL-SHAHBA

The citizen (KM) from Afrin canton told Hawar news agency details of the torture and violations he suffered during the 65 days of his abduction by the Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries who kidnapped him from Afrin with a group of citizens and put them in al-Raei prison of Azaz area.

At first, the citizen spoke about how they were kidnapped by the Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries. "When we tried to get out of Afrin canton escaping from the violations and practices of the occupation army and its mercenaries that no one can tolerate anymore, we took secondary and rugged roads in an attempt to escape and not pass through the mercenaries' barriers, but a patrol of the occupation army and its mercenaries saw us and besieged us, we were 27 people, they attacked us with weapons and tied our hands and put our heads in bags, and put us in a car and took us with them."

He pointed out that many of the hijackers were suffocating from the bags on their heads, and everyone was screamed to lift the bag from his head because he was suffocated, the mercenaries beat him with their arms and almost everyone was beaten and humiliated until they reached the prison.

"When they arrived at the prison they threw us out of the car in a barbaric manner with beatings and they all entered us in one room, with an area of ​​only 3 meters and 2 width only, after they had lifted the bags from our heads without removing our hands, Midnight they brought us some foods and we asked to disengage our hands to be able to eat, they said to us (you have to eat like dogs).

"After two days they took us to a second dormitory and removed our restrictions, and then the torment and humiliation journey has begun," he said.

They choose a person not on appointment and take him and torture him brutally and they investigate with him and then return after exhausting the beatings, on the day they chose me to investigate with me, a mercenary called me and when I approached he closed my eyes and threw me on the ground and started to hit me joined with some others around me with cables, hoses and sticks, I turned around in the dormitory and screamed of pain which I could not bear until my strength collapsed. "

The citizen testified that he witnessed that one of the mercenary had cut the ears of one of the abductees in the prison by a "scout" and described the scene as "brutal and unscrupulous."

They closed the eyes of the abductees and asked them to run in the dormitory, the mercenaries hit them and beat them with hoses and cables, anyone who stopped was brutally beaten and some of them tried to escape from their blows with extreme

On other hand, the citizen confirmed that while they were in prison they heard the cries of women inside the prison, they were beaten and tortured, and they watched surreptitiously from the hole in the door lock and watched the mercenaries beat some women brutally in the corridors of the prison.

He said that he spent 65 days inside the prison and was subjected to all forms of beatings and humiliation without any offense, he noted that before his release one day, an officer of the Turkish occupation investigate with him, on the second day, the mercenaries took him away from prison and threatened to kill him, in order to fear him, they illusion him of killing, and fired 30 rounds next to his ear to intimidate him, then disbanded and released him, then he managed to reach al-Shahba canton with the help of some citizens in ​​Azaz area, while the rest of his comrades are still in prison.

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