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On Thursday, the Human Rights Watch said that women in Syria have been victims of unreasonable unrest, discrimination, harassment and torture at the hands of both rebel and government forces during the three-year conflict.
The global rights group, in its report, urged international leaders to “hold those responsible for such abuses to account”. Liesl Gerntholtz, women’s rights director at Human Rights Watch, said, “Women have not been spared any aspect of the brutality of the Syrian conflict, but they are not merely passive victims”.
“Women have been arbitrarily arrested and detained, physically abused, harassed and tortured during Syria’s conflict by government forces, pro-government militias and armed groups opposed to the government”, the group said it its report, which is based on interviews with service providers and refugee women in Turkey, which has been home to several hundreds of thousands of Syrian immigrants after war ravaged their country.
“Several of the women told Human Rights Watch that government forces or non-state armed groups had harassed, threatened or detained them because of their peaceful activism, including planning and participating in non-violent demonstrations and providing humanitarian assistance to needy Syrians”, the group added.
In the report, 30-year-old pro-opposition journalist Maisa, said that she was detained by security forces in Damascus in 2013, where they beat her “throughout the night with a thick green hose”.
“They slapped me on the face. They pulled me from my hair. They hit me on my feet, on my back, all over”, the HRW quoted her as saying.
Several rights groups have documented the ill-treatment and systematic torture of female and male detainees in Syria’s notorious detention centers and prisons. Anti-regime forces have also been accused of committing abuses women and imposing “discriminatory policies on women and girls, including restrictions on their dress and freedom of movement”, the HRW said.
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