Friday’s demonstrations were organized by the International Conscience Movement, Istanbul-based IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, and several other rights groups and organizations who demand the release of women and children from the jails of Assad regime.
During the demonstrations held simultaneously in 110 countries around the world, representatives of organizations issued a joint news conference titled “We are getting together for the freedom of captive women and children in Syria”.
Bulent Yildirim, head of IHH, said at the conference in Istanbul that Muslim countries must be “ashamed” of not doing enough for women and children held in Syrian prisons.
He stressed women and children in Assad prisons face all kinds of hardships.
IHH’s Hatay province representative Ismail Dokmeci said: We speak to the Assad regime and its partners. Stop using rape as a weapon of war. Stop the brutal torture against women. Release our Syrian sisters.
On Friday’s evening Memur-Sen Confederation -Turkey's largest labour movement-
held a march in Ankara to call for the freedom of women and children kept in Assad regime prisons.
The Conscience Movement was founded last year after an all-woman international convoy made global headlines by raising awareness about the abuses suffered by female prisoners of the Assad regime.
Based on AA
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