{"id":400,"date":"2017-04-29T06:44:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T06:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world-uncensored.com\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2023-06-29T21:37:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T21:37:19","slug":"two-floors-under-the-chilling-story-of-abdul-disappeared-and-tortured-by-assads-regime-for-1-%c2%bd-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world-uncensored.com\/blog\/two-floors-under-the-chilling-story-of-abdul-disappeared-and-tortured-by-assads-regime-for-1-%c2%bd-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Floors Under – The chilling story of Abdul, \u201cdisappeared\u201d and Tortured by Assad\u2019s regime for 1 \u00bd years."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis is where they smashed my skull\u201d, he says, making me feel the back of his head. You can clearly feel the injury. Then he shows me one of his arms, pointing out a long scar.
\n<\/span>The man sitting opposite of me is Abdul Hamid, who was \u2018disappeared\u2019 and tortured by the Syrian government for one and a half years. \u201cI\u2019m 28 years old, but I feel like I\u2019m 70\u201d, he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe kept his body in the Fridge for 5 days because we couldn\u2019t leave the house\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Arab Spring<\/h4>\n

Abdul grew up in the Syrian city of Homs. \u201cI led a fairly good life – until in 2011, the war broke out.\u201d
\n<\/span>\u201cAssad could do whatever he wanted. They could take people and change the laws; there were no morales from the government\u2019s side.\u201d As in many Arab countries, the authoritarian rule was what brought people onto the streets in the Arab Spring. Abdul himself participated in the protests, which were brutally dispersed by government forces, causing many casualties amongst the demonstrators. \u201cWe were marching in the streets, and suddenly the police showed up. We all started running, but the police had come with an armored car with a machine gun and simply opened fire into the crowd. My friend was shot in the back, three times, and later died. We kept his body in the fridge for 5 days because we couldn\u2019t leave the house due to the fighting.\u201d
\n<\/span>It was also during the Arab Spring that Abdul was first detained by the Amen Alddawla, State Security. \u201cI was walking along the street one day, and they arrested me. I was in prison for about two and a half months.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBehind closed doors, they\u2019d kill oppositionists with a lethal injection\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Operating a Secret Hospital<\/h4>\n

As the fighting showed no signs of ending, Abdul, together with some of his friends who had knowledge in medicine decided to open a secret hospital under their house for wounded oppositionists. \u201cI myself have been shot, so I know the situation\u201d Abdul casually mentions. The secret hospital was necessary to save the lives of their friends, Abdul says: \u201cTo the media, the government said that they would also treat the opposition. But really, they would take them into the hospital and, behind closed doors, kill them with a lethal injection.\u201d A recent trial of a Syrian doctor in Germany<\/a>, accused among other things of killing at least one member of the opposition by means of a lethal injection, gives credence to this claim.<\/span><\/p>\n

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