Livanets Muaz Merab, who spent 18 years in the dungeons of the overthrown of Assad in Syria, said that people accepted the accusations against them without reading, as they were afraid of cruel torture.
50-year-old man from the city of Tripoli (Northern Lebanon) at the time of the arrest in Syria had a 5-year-old son and a 6-year-old daughter, while he already has a grandson.
In an interview with an anadol correspondent, Muaz Merab, who spent a third part of his life in Syrian prisons, spoke about the 18 years of the struggle for survival in the dungeons of the regime.
Livanets said that he worked in the media during the US invasion of Iraq. According to Merab, he was detained by the Assad regime in the Duma area in Damascus upon returning from Iraq.
Merab noted that the guards and the forces of the regime, who interrogated the detainees, used various methods of torture. “Bezing, forced nudity, intimidation and humiliation are some of them,” he said.
Merab pointed out that one of the guns that the detainees beat was electric wires. “With every blow, our flesh was torn, our bodies were bleeding. Among the methods of torture there was a“ wheel method. ”They tied the hands of a person with legs, clamped them in a wheel, and then strokes were struck,” the man recalls.
Livanets said that all the words about torture in the prisons of Assad regime are true. According to him, due to the cruelty of torture used by the regime forces, people put up with all the accusations against them.
Merab also said that he was serving a sentence in prisons of Fera Filistin and Kephrsus, spent five years in the Sednaya prison, which is called the “human massacre” of the Assad regime, and since 2011 was held in Adra prison.
The Lebanese noted that because of the brutal torture in the Sednaya prison, people died every day. “One of the cruel torture is to tear the skin from prisoners,” Merb recalls.
“The detainees took fingerprints, without looking into documents containing accusations and alleged confessions. At the same time, their hands were tied behind their backs, and sometimes those who refused, cut their fingers,” he said.
According to Merab, the 7-meter chamber contained about 60 people who were given a little bread and bulgur.
The Lebanese also attracted attention to the terrifying events that took place in Assad prisons.
“There was one Shabikha, who was convicted of crimes committed by him. He killed one or two people to get his food, usually choosing the sick and weak,” he says.
Over 29 years of the Syrian occupation in Lebanon (1976-2005), many Lebanians were detained in Syria on charges of “membership or cooperation with groups that opposed the Syrian occupation or hostile to the Syrian regime”.
According to the non -governmental organization “Association of Lebanese prisoners in Syrian prisons” based in Lebanon, the number of Lebanos that disappeared in the dungeons of the Syrian regime has about 622 people.
Earlier, on December 10, the Minister of Internal Affairs Livan Bassam Mavlavi said that nine Lebanese who escaped from prisons of Assad got to their country.