Wednesday, May 18, 2011

A Reporter's Account Of Life In A Syrian Prison



Dorothy Parvaz: Inside Syria's Secret Prisons -- Al Jazeera

'We could clearly hear the interrogator pummelling his fists into his subject,' writes our correspondent.

I was standing in two fist-sized pools of smeared, sticky blood, trying to sort out why there were seven angry Syrians yelling at me. Only one of them - who I came to know as Mr Shut Up during my three days in a detention center, where so many Syrians 'disappeared' are being kept - spoke English.

Watching them searching my bags, and observing the set of handcuffs hanging from the bunk bed wedged behind the desk in the middle of the room, I guessed that I was being arrested - or, at the very least, processed for detention.

"Why are doing this?" I asked.

"Shut up! SHUT UP!" said Mr Shut Up.

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More News On Dorothy Parvaz's Experiences In Syria

Al Jazeera journalist released from detention -- Al Jazeera
Canadian journalist Dorothy Parvaz on way home after 'terrifying' Mideast detention -- Montreal Gazette/ Postmedia News
Journalist Dorothy Parvaz Is Free; Had Been Held In Syria -- NPR
Inside a Syrian prison -- Global Post
Al-Jazeera journalist Dorothy Parvaz freed: The web reacts -- Washington Post

My Comment
: The above Al Jazeera story on life in Syria's prisons is riveting .... read it all.

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