Testimonies of Torture in Prison

I said, “Lord, take my soul. I haven’t lived anything in this life.”

But what is this? What kind of torture is this? There is no torture like it anywhere.

Imagine this torture.

About one of the most notorious prisons on the West Coast,

Al-Masirah reveals accounts from prisoners

and abductees about the methods of torture

and violations they were subjected to by the forces of

the occupation inside what is known as Prison

Four Hundred.

The so-called Prison Four Hundred is located in the heart of Abu Musa Camp

in the coastal city of Al-Khokha,

and is one of the largest prisons there.

One of the freed detainees from the city of Mokha recounts

to Al-Masirah the chapters of a tragedy that began with his abduction

from his home and stretched over five years

and four months behind prison walls and in torture

chambers.

The last time I breathed fresh air outside, they only allowed us five minutes.

Those five minutes became five years of

torture, beatings, and every kind of torture, I swear to God, physical and psychological.

When I got out, I came out paralyzed.

Paralyzed, paralyzed, I came out.

Sultan Faqir, one of the dignitaries of the city of Mokha,

He recalls the details of what he experienced in prison,

moving between scenes of physical torture

and psychological torture that he says were inflicted on him

and on others, using various methods,

leaving their marks for years.

They took us and hung us here. This—this wire, this is the wire

used for hanging. This is where they hung us from six o'clock

until noon. We were nearly dead, it was criminal.

In this place, I heard so much.

At night, we couldn't sleep.

We'd hear—

ooh, ooh—the screams. It was as if... I can't tell

you, it was like the afterlife. Torment, torment, torment, torment, torment.

The other one. I swear, we won't sleep till morning from all the howling and crying.

Right.

People. This extractor, look at this extractor. Look at this extractor.

All of it. This whole extractor is wires. Wires like those for

a fan.

Okay. A wire like a fan wire ends here, without

a fan.

Okay. Except the wire fits across the square.

And the clamp is between them.

Okay. It sits properly, the fan sits. And I'll leave this

in one of

one of Bani Luhum, at Abu Luhum's house in Samara.

A young man, about 20 years old. One was 20 years old.

They beat him. They beat him. They beat him until he died, I swear to God.

They untied him. One dead man after another.

A man named Walid Al-Hamli came.

He hit him on the nape. This one, curse his mother, curse his mother. Get up.

This man is dead. Enough. Leave the man alone, Jamal. Enough of the blows.

Jamal. Enough. Get up. They replied.

The doctor said he was deceased. Dead, dead. They took him to a grave behind

the prison.

Sultan Faqir's suffering did not end with the years

of detention and torture. He says he faced

a death sentence before the continued follow-up

of his case and the efforts made in

the prisoners' cause prevented the implementation

of the sentence.

When God decreed relief at the hands of Sayyid Al-Mawla, God decreed it.

Sayyid Al-Arani, may God protect him, approved it.

After that, they would tell me, "You have been sentenced to death."

"You have been sentenced to death." "Why am I sentenced to death? I haven't committed any offense."

I didn't steal. You haven't caught me doing anything. "Death, death

for you." The prisoners would come and reassure one another.

They would say, "You're going."

After two years, you leave after five years. You're no longer yourself.

Sultan, you're facing execution. Don't you think that one day

you might never get out or never see your children?

Put that completely out of your mind. Do you? No.

Meaning, you no longer think you're alive, or that you'll get out and feel the light

or feel your children.

What Sultan recounts is just one of

many testimonies

that speak of harsh methods of torture

and abuses inside the prison.

Testimonies whose details overlap

and reveal part of what the prisoners endured.

and the abductees throughout their years of detention.

Praise be to You, God. Praise be to You, Lord. Thank You for getting us out of

these

prisons.

Testimonies from West Coast residents continue

to reveal details of years of hardship

behind the walls of this prison,

documenting what the freed detainees say about

violations that left physical

and deep psychological scars, and memories that will remain

a testament to what was done to the detainees by

the enemy's brutal instruments.