“Hiba” … Dying thousand time a day story

Story No.4
Survivors or not yet
From Shahla Al Saeed
Editing: Lana Haj Hasan
Al Raqqa

Hiba, a former law student, cries bitterly at once about her future, which has gone with the wind after that Al Raqqa was controlled by ISIS, and a thousand times for her sister, who lost her by virtue of a sentence of inhumanity of ISIS. Hiba wishes that if every action was a nightmare and would be ended up, but how she sister’s image chase her in every corner of the grieving house.

The story begins by saying:
My name is Hiba and my sister was called Walaa. We were studying at Damascus University. I am a sophomore in Law College and my sister is a third year at the Faculty of Engineering.
During our study, ISIS took control of the city of Raqqa. At that time, the families who had children outside the city were obliged to return. My father was afraid and asked us to return.
As soon as we arrived in the bus station area, we were arrested on charges that we were with Al Nasiriyah. They imprisoned us for a whole day and we were accused of being allies with the Nasiriyah. The next day they made us records and took us out of prison.
“Life is not easy,” Hiba adds. “Neighbors and neighborhood children began to talk to us about how they were imprisoned and what ISIS did to them, and that the girls who entered ISIS jails were not immune to harassment and other comments.
Our exposure outside the prison was harsher and heavier than the insults and beatings we were subjected to in prison.
My sister never accepted this talk and she cried a lot. She made her decision to travel. I tried to bend her and we had to try to adapt to the situation.
My father agreed with a smuggler and we paid 200,000 Syrian pounds to secure her escape. But on the way, ISIS caught her as a rebound because she had been imprisoned repented and her escape had been a rebound and she was sentenced to death by ISIS. I lost my sister.