Saluting Syrian women on International Women's Day, March 8, 2013

For now, women are participating in the uprising in Syria in increasing numbers. Despite the risks and the viciousness of the government's crackdown (more than 5,400 have been killed), Syrian women are displaying bravery by leading initiatives and protests for the release of prisoners and to support the Syrian revolution. 

Female-led protests have erupted across the country, anywhere arrests and torture are occurring on a large scale. In one instance it was women's activism that organised protests to release their male-relative prisoners. 

Syrian women, furthermore, have generated their own discreet circles and coordination efforts to collect money and provide medical kits, food and non-food items to affected families in the worst-hit areas.

But there are many more women who are being arrested, tortured and harassed without being widely recognised or acknowledged. 

They come from all walks of life and are conservatives, liberals and secularists. They fight for Syria, but they also fight for their own rights. Syrian women have been marginalised and systematically isolated due to conservative cultural values, and the brutal and notorious practices of the Syrian security apparatus.

What was our feeling to the Syrian women who have been arrested, tortured and harassed for the long time by the Assad's troops???
Come On Muslims, WAKE UP!!