Reports | 25 05 2020
Lama Andani’s will of life didn’t stop, a Syrian woman who survived the death machine that took place in Syria.
Lama spent nine years in the Syrian regime’s prison, what made here more determined to challenge the difficulties of the life of all kinds, and she turned from a former earlier detained by the Syrian regime forces, into a lawyer carried the burden of defending the oppressed in wartime.
"I was just a girl of fifteen years old, when I was taken from my school in the city of Aleppo, on charges of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, I saw injustice with my own eyes, so I decided once that I will be released, I will study law, and undertake the oppressed issues."
Lama still relives the harsh memories, despite the passage of 28 years since her detention, and every time she hears the sound of closing a door firmly, her mind goes back to that time and to the darkness of the cell, when the hands the warden at Douma prison closes the gate with all managed, leaving behind detainees who longed to see the moon behind the high walls of the jail.
"I was transferred from Aleppo to Damascus after only four days of my arrest, along with 12 other women" she relives memories of the beginning of her arrest, she added: "I was tortured, despite my age, but the biggest pain was in not knowing anything about my family since four years."
Despite her harsh ordeal, Lama has participated in the Syrian revolution since its start, ignoring any risks or obstacles, and finally she was forced to leave her country and go to Turkey, accompanied by her daughter Touka, especially after her husband suspicious disappearance in the city of Damascus, and Lama suggested that he may be detained by the Syrian Regime.
That did not keep her away from continuing to fight against injustice in all determination, she worked with the Syrian Women's Association in Turkey, and undertook the detainees’ issues, to be moved now to work with the "Olive " project in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, which aims to document the Syrians’ marriages in Turkey, she said .
* This report was accomplished with the help of the Resource Center.