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Tag: médicos del mundo


After seven years in prison, Mohamed Khaled Krayem is finally free. His family is happy, but he struggles to think about the future as he must attend medical visits to recover after his release. “They used to beat us with iron and plastic pipes on our hands and feet,” Mohamed says. Welcome: *ahlan wa sahlan.* The interviewees utter these words as if referring to an old acquaintance: *ahlan wa sahlan.* And another: *dulab* (wheel). This method of torture, though simple, became one of the regime's trademarks: seating the prisoner inside a wheel, restraining them, and beating them. “They put you on your back inside the tire and start hitting your feet with strips made from another tire they had cut,” explains Mohamed, the survivor with broken teeth. In the photo, Mohamed assumes the same position he used to sleep in while in prison. After seven years of lying in the same posture, his muscle memory, still fresh since his release only days ago, instinctively reproduces the positions he was forced to adopt in his cell. The lack of space and the repetitive nature of those movements mean he remembers exactly how he lay down and slept in Sednaya Jail.
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