B.N (born in 2002 from one of the villages of Afrin) did not know what awaited her when she went looking for her sister, who was detained by one of the groups of the National Army in Afrin.
After she failed to obtain any information about her sister, the miserable fates led her and one of her friends to identify "Samaou", a member of the National Army, who settled in Afrin, while his origins are from Azaz.
Samou "B.N" promised to secure a temporary protection document in Turkey as a "property" for her, her mother, and her sister, after her sister was subjected to three days of interrogation and fifteen days of observation.
And because the drowned was attached to a straw, the family trusted the promises of "Samao" who led them, as soon as they came to Afrin in early January 2020, to Al-Ra'i police station, where they were detained at the police station and subjected to torture with beatings and electric shocks.
The mother was detained for fifty-two days and was released as a cancer patient after desperate pleading by her daughter who watched her mother receive direct threat with the barrel of a gun on her head, while the daughter was tried in a mock form and remained in prison for six months and a week, and she also came out with a mock pardon after it was confirmed to prison officers that she was She has nothing to blackmail her with.
During the interrogation, which lasted for two months, B.N. was subjected to severe torture, including beatings, electric shocks, insults, and threats to kill. She came out of this experience in a debilitated physical and psychological state. She fell to the ground and remained unconscious for hours or ended with desperate attempts to harm herself and commit suicide, traces still visible on her limbs and neck.
B.N. told Rumav, "Turks were supervising the investigation, while the National Army members handled translation and torture. The interrogation and torture ranged between two hours and a full day all the way to night, and included severe beatings and electric shocks all over my body. At the beginning of the investigation, I was driving closed. The eyes are down a long staircase in Al-Ra’i police station, and there I randomly get clubbing on my body and subjected to endless insults. After two months, I was transferred to Al-Ra’i Central Prison. There I found myself among prisoners of different ages. My mother was not allowed to visit me at all, despite her repeated attempts. The torture in the central prison stopped. But he communicated in another way, as I was listening through a common wall to the torture of young men in the juvenile prison next to our prison.”
Among the well-established scenes in B.N’s memory, her mother was tortured in front of her in order to force her to confess things she knew nothing about, or the scene of a girl accompanied by a young child who was arrested by the National Army while she was trying to cross the Turkish border to join her family, and she was accused of preparing for a false explosion. Or the scene of Ghalia al-Halabi with her young daughter, who was accused by police officers of drug dealing after they put Captagon pills in her pockets and many scenes of such injustice.
B.N. was subjected to an attempted harassment and defended herself fiercely. One of the remarkable things in Al-Ra'i prison is that the police station officers were not allowed to eat the food intended for female prisoners, and that days after the investigation began, she slept late, unusually, and woke up in a state of coma and loss. awareness, which led her to suspect the food provided to the prisoners.
It is also remarkable that women accused of belonging to ISIS received reduced sentences that did not exceed six months, while the Afrinites or Manbijites, who had no evidence of the accusations of belonging to the PKK, were subject to sentences extending for years, such as Kulshan (20 years), who Sixteen years old or Suzanne (13 years old) from Manbij district who was sentenced to three years, or Fatima from Manbij who was imprisoned on her own and had skin diseases without any interest in her treatment, or a seventy-year-old woman from Manbij was sentenced to life imprisonment.
In Al-Ra’i Central Prison, “B.N” spent about four months among twenty-five female prisoners, most of whom were girls (13-17 years), some of whom were accompanied by young children (1-7 years). The children’s needs for food and underwear were secured from visitors, donors and others She finds a visitor who provides her with the needs of her children, and she raises her hands to God...
Through a common wall, next to the women's prison, there was a prison for juveniles, and it was clear from what was leaking through the wall that the juveniles receive double torture, and most of them are Arabs from the Manbij side, begging their mothers during the harsh moments of torture in their distinctive Manbij dialect, "Inside you, my mother."
The Turks were the ones who supervised the Al-Ra’i police station (Lieutenant-Colonel Aladdin, known for his tall body and blond hair) and the central prison (Lieutenant-Colonel Amjad Al-Khatib), as they did not trust, according to what BN noted, in the Syrians affiliated with them, and these Turks were keen Strongly threatening women prisoners with death if any information was leaked about the scenes of torture taking place in the police station and prison, and they were keen to question the deplorable relationship of Arab women prisoners from Manbij with the Kurds, and they tried as much as possible to differentiate between the two parties.
About the trip out of prison, B.N. says, “It was surprising. In the middle of June 2020, a Turkish investigator summoned me and threatened me if I disclosed any information about what had happened to me. From a policeman’s phone at the entrance to the prison, the strange thing is that the policeman tried to lure my mother to come to the shepherd, and I later understood that he was going to arrest her again, but my mother missed the opportunity for them and asked a lawyer in the shepherd to help me return to Afrin, and after three days I returned to our home and stayed For three months, I do not leave the house for fear of being arrested again. I stayed for months after prison, suffering from severe nervous conditions and trying to harm myself and cause injuries, and then I stop.”
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Source:Rumaf
Report translation:Geo-strategic
