Inside Assad's prisons: Horrors facing female inmates in Syrian jails revealed

[rangerrebew]

Inside Assad's prisons: Horrors facing female inmates in Syrian jails revealed
 
The Independent
Bethan McKernan
1 day ago
 

© Provided by Independent Print Limited Zahira (not her real name) was 45 when she was arrested at her workplace in a suburb of Damascus in 2013. As soon as she arrived at Al Mezzeh Military Airport, she was strip searched, tied to a bed and gang raped by five soldiers.

For the next 14 days, she was raped, or threatened with rape, again and again and again.

During one interrogation, in which she says she was s*****y penetrated in “every body cavity”, a soldier filmed what was happening and threatened to show it to her family and community.

http://www.msn.com/en-my/news/world/inside-assads-prisons-horrors-facing-female-inmates-in-syrian-jails-revealed/ar-AAqQY3j

[TomSea]

I believe it; also Iran and Syria sabotaged the US invasion of Iraq from 2003 on.

2007 – From exile in Iran, Shi’ite cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr issues the first of a series of cease-fire orders to his militia, the Madhi Army. Al-Sadr, the son of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad al-Sadr, established the Mahdi Army as a military wing to his Sadr Bureaus whch were formed as a shadow governmet in opposition to the Iraqi Governing Council.
https://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress.com/2005/08/29/august-29/
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,278903.0.html

The coverage of Moqtada al-Sadr made him out to be a real bad guy; now, he's seen as being a voice of reason which he probably is currently. 

Options in Syria have not been only Assad or ISIS or al Qaeda.