Lizzie Porter

Bio:

Lizzie Porter is a Beirut-based freelance journalist with a focus on Syria and Lebanon. She has special interests in displaced populations, imprisonment, and women's issues. Read more of her work here, and follow her on Twitter here.

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December 22, 2016 | Lizzie Porter | Disability, International, Violence against women
For female detainees in Syria, life after prison can be even worse

When Luna Watfa refused to reveal any information to her interrogators, they took her son, 17, and threatened to torture him. “They put my son’s hands behind his back, his T-shirt over his head and they took him,” she says.

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