Our future doctors .. in Al-Assad’s dungeons
"Yaman AlQadri"
A young Syrian lady born on the 18th of April, 1993 (18 years of age).
A student at Damascus University in the Faculty of Medicine.
Residing in Damascus, far away from her family in Riyadh.
She was detained on November 3rd after being assaulted, beaten and humiliated by the Shabeeha millitias and security forces for participating in the student demonstrations that took place on the campus of the University of Damascus demanding the release of the faculty students who were detained on the previous day.
As evident in this photo, Yaman is a bright and wonderful young lady, a blooming rose as described by her colleagues in the FaceBook page created for her support.
https://www.facebook.com/free.yaman.algadri?sk=info
which now includes, in a very short period of time, approximately 13,500 fans. This is but a testament to Yaman’s sincerity in choosing to stand in the face of murder, oppression and tyranny directed at an entire population day and night.
One of Yaman’s close friends says the following about her:
"All I can say about Yaman is that she is a polite, mature and well educated young lady. Her personality combined two traits that rarely are present in one person of her age, she is both courageous and kind. She left an impression from the first time we met as a result of her excessive innocence and purity. She always does her utmost to ensure she does not hurt anyone’s feelings and to be as a role model of the classy young lady with the highest morals and the kindest of hearts.
Yaman left her family in Saudi Arabia so she may fulfill her dream of studying Medicine in the University and I do hope that she will be able to fulfill that dream in the near future”. On the 3rd of November, a number of students from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Damascus joined together to demand and ask for freedom, democracy and social justice, sacred values sought by every person on earth who reveres human rights and performs his or her duties towards his or her brothers and sisters in humanity. Yaman was one of those students who participated in this demonstration.
As is customary in Syria, the security forces and Shabeeha militias belonging to Al-Assad regime that has lost all popular legitimacy entered the university campus in a barbaric fashion and with total disregard to any rule or law. They then proceeded to attack and assault the students without regard to their gender, men or women. The students’ voices, including that of Yaman, became louder and louder as they refused to surrender and be humiliated, which led the security forces to beat her and take her to the university campus security room next door to the university. These security forces and militias were seen heavily beating, slapping and insulting her, she was later arrested that same day, along with one of her colleagues, at the gate of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Damascus without a judicial arrest warrant being issued. Her colleague was subsequently released a few hours later and she remained alone in the detention camp. She remains a hostage in the dark dungeons of the Syrian Security without any visitation rights or even knowledge of her whereabouts, even if it is a grief stricken mother who had left her job in Riyadh and traveled to Damascus in the hopes that she may be able to see her only daughter.
It is noteworthy that we ask ourselves about this crime that Yaman had committed to justify this punishment of being exiled from her family, university and friends. Also, will her case be championed by someone in the Human Rights Organizations to investigate the crimes of the regime of death squad militias and to defend the right of living in Syria?
The medical student Yaman is but an example that summarizes the suffering of the Syrian educated youth when their freedom, dignity and right to a dignified life is stolen from them. Nor is the involuntary detention that she suffers from in the dungeons of darkness a stranger to that of the suffering of the youngest prisoner of consciousness in the world, Tull Almalouhi, who was arrested at 17 year of age. The files of the females in detention are ever growing on a daily bassis, in a public breach of the state law, the local customs and the ethics morals of humanity.
On the Facebook page for solidarity with Yaman, a colleague of hers wrote on Monday saying: “Is my peaceful and well-mannered friend who comes from a very well-known and respected family in Syria is an infiltrator or a member of an armed gang?"...