Women Released From Syria’s Prisons Share Their Stories of Incarceration

Women Released From Syria’s Prisons Share Their Stories of Incarceration

Malak watches Al-Rawda cafe gradually fill up. It is 4 p.m. on a February afternoon, and the 32-year-old lawyer is regaining a taste of freedom, after spending six months in the jails of the regime of former President Bashar al-Assad.  The human rights activist feels at home in this epicenter of Damascus’ political and cultural activism. A smile lights up her face, wrapped in a light beige veil, as a small group of people come to embrace her, am…

“They Said He Kidnapped Me” : A Love Story Twisted by Syria’s Sectarian Wounds

In the grainy footage first shared on social media, Mira Jalal Thabet stood beside her husband Ahmad, veiled in modest Islamic clothing, while looking into the camera. “There was no kidnapping,” she said firmly. “I was under pressure at my family’s house… and since there was love between me and Ahmad, I turned to him.” […]