Mama Nazak, 62 - Syria
Mama Nazak was a geography teacher at the university in Damascus. Having been hung by her hands for 20 days by the Hafez al Assad regime for not supporting the Baath party, she left Syria in 1980, only to return six years ago.
Mama Nazak had three sons. Her son Fras was killed fighting for the Free Syrian Army against the regime. Juan was shot in the lower arm whilst trying to save Fras and remains disabled. And Judi on a separate occasion was shot in the back, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.
She described what had happened to them like this: “You can say I had three flowers in my garden, one was eaten by the beast and two trampled down with the beast’s foot and walked away.”