In a Daesh prison, he had no hope. But then he heard the drones.
Before Kurdish and US commandos arrived at his cell door last month, Hassan Abu Ahmad had not seen daylight for five months. Held in a Daesh prison near the northern Iraqi town of Hawijah, the 46-year-old was accused of being a spy and regularly tortured. Sometimes a plastic bag was placed over his face until he […]Before Kurdish and US commandos arrived at his cell door last month, Hassan Abu Ahmad had not seen daylight for five months. Held in a Daesh prison near the northern Iraqi town of Hawijah, the 46-year-old was accused of being a spy and regularly tortured.
Sometimes a plastic bag was placed over his face until he nearly suffocated. He was electrocuted, beaten with plastic pipes and whipped with electric cable. There were mock executions. “They’d put a gun to your head and [say] we are going to kill you now, and then shoot next to you,” Abu Ahmad said. “We always feared execution.”
