Spring of freedom

Thousands of women are held in horrible situation in Assad regime’s prisons The Syrian Network for Human Rights on Friday, March 8 th  issued a statement to mark the Women’s Day calling for the release of 7,721 women who have been detained by the Assad regime. The statement reads: “sexual exploitation of female inmates in prisons is continuing. At least half million people including 13,500 women are held in Assad’s notorious prisons.” Syrian Network for Human Rights said many dissidents in Assad prisons have been either killed under torture or have been executed. Syrian Network for Human Rights is an independent, neutral, non-governmental, non-profit human rights organization, which aims to document the ongoing human rights violation in Syria. Read more: Orient News reported on March 9, 2019, that thousands of demonstrators took to the streets on Friday (March 8) in Aleppo countryside, calling for the immediate release of women detainees at the Assad regime’s detenti...

People protest in Tehran, Iran December 30, 2017 in in this picture obtained from social media.  The massive and widespread arrests of young people in different Iranian cities continue since the people took to the streets on December 28. According to reports from inside Iran and from within the regime, the number of detainees has mounted to at least 8,000 by the end of the second week of the Iranian people's uprising.   The repressive forces are beating a protester on the street In recent days, several of these prisoners were martyred under the regime’s medieval tortures. Despite the regime’s attempts to keep hidden the number of arrests, it admitted to parts of it due to the high rise in numbers. A week ago Mahmoud Sadeghi, a member of parliament, said the number of arrestees amounted to 3,700. On January 2, political-security deputy governor of Tehran said 450 people were arrested in Tehran in only three days (December 30 - January 1). On Decemb...