'Whether at home or outside, it is a prison. Women are oppressed. It is impossible to breathe. Even at home, she has to be careful what she says. In the religious police too, we knew nothing about each other.' Via AJEnglish
In the first of a five-part series of accounts exploring what life was like for women living under the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Syria and Iraq, two women who worked as torturers for ISIL's religious police share their stories.My name is Aisha. In ISIL, they called me Um Qaqaa. I lived in Raqqa.
If a woman walked down the street unaccompanied, she was arrested. She had to be accompanied by her brother or husband. If a woman walked alone or took a taxi without them, she was arrested. One day, we arrested a woman who was wearing nail polish. They used a pair of pliers to pull out her nails. One day, one of the women saw her cousin or neighbour, someone she knew. She asked us to act as if nothing had happened. But the one who was in charge of monitoring us reported her. They punished my colleague and fired her. She was imprisoned, flogged and tortured.
I stopped working when the bombing started in Raqqa. My colleagues continued working but I took my children and left because of the air raids.[Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera]I am Um Farouk, I live in, 'the Province of Plenty'. I am 45 years old. When ISIL arrived, I swore allegiance and worked with them in the religious police.
We had to wear a wide abaya with a cover on top. At first, they allowed the eyes to be uncovered. But they changed their minds. You had to be fully covered and even wear gloves. Those were their rules. Anyone who did not comply and wore an abaya that was too tight or had something sparkly on it broke the rules.
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