Sketch.At @AtlanticCouncil on justice in #Syria @SaretaAshraph said upgrading charges against #Assad agent on trial in #Germany to incl sexual crimes result of efforts by women to ensure recognised as crimes against humanity used to torture women, men, children via @RonanLTynan March 19, 2021
Sketch“We went to America and told them the whole story.We went to Germany and told them the whole story. We went to the Netherlands, France and even Italy. And people didn’t listen. The whole world didn’t listen.”-Mazen Al Hummada March 15, 2021
Sketch based on photo by @BassamKhabieh . Bassam,your photographs are haunting, soul wrenching, and invaluable as a witness to the strength and suffering of your #Syrian brothers and sisters. May your images hasten the prosecution of #Assad and his henchmen. @AliaMalek March 14, 2021
Sketch from testimony of Mohamed Al Shami, tortured 3 yrs. in #Assad ‘s prisons: “Each day guards would yell ‘how many dead today?’ Then they would take our meager food and mash it on the corpses,which were crawling with maggots and covered in sores. ‘Eat it, maybe more will die’ March 13, 2021
Sketch based on witness testimony. One of the myriad torture methods used on women and girls in #Assad ‘s hellish prisons, is , disfigurement by acid. #Assad and his thugs will drown in a tidal wave of incriminating evidence of their own making. They will NOT escape justice! March 12, 2021
Sketch. From the testimony of “Zahira” tortured in #Assad ‘s prisons. “She slept in a 3×4 meter cell with up to 48 other women. It was so cramped they had to sleep in shifts.They could only use the toilet once every 12 hours, and to wash once in every 40 days.” Via @Independent March 9, 2021
Sketch. Testimony of female detainee in #Assad prisons.“The torture marks are still present. I would lose consciousness with the electricity… [T]hey were hitting me on my lower legs below my thighs and on my back. They tortured me until my body started bruising … “ via @hrw March 7, 2021
Sketch. I drew this after reading @LizSly ‘s devastating and honest portrait of dear #MazenAlHummada in @washingtonpostAll I want to do is hug my friend close. Mazen was destroyed by a world that turned their backs on the suffering of his fellow detainees, and #Assad ‘s crimes. March 5, 2021
Sketch. “Children have not been spared the horror of Syria’s crackdown,” Syrian forces have killed, arrested, and tortured children in their homes,their schools, or on the streets. In many cases, security forces have targeted children just as they have targeted adults.” Via @hrw March 5, 2021
Sketch (homemade watercolor). Testimony of Alaa Homsi.“I was electrified, hanged from the ceiling by hands and left in that position for hours and beaten,” Homsi added that many women are stripped of their clothes before being hanged in this position. Via @MiddleEastEye March 4, 2021