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MOSUL, Iraq--Iron-plated doors, a blood-stained metal bar across the ceiling and a jerry-rigged camera on the ceiling to watch inmates: this inside a home in Mosul that ISIS had converted into a prison.
Rudaw filmed the inside of the makeshift prison in the newly-freed Mosul neighborhood of Qadisiyah in the city’s eastern districts.
The two-floor villa had been emptied of prisoners ahead of the advancing Iraqi troops, who have been fighting for weeks to liberate the city district by district.
Scattered documents, leftover food on a table and keys left behind all testified that the militants had left in a hurry.
The top floor of the residential villa had been converted into tiny cells. In one cell, a piece of bread hung from a blood-splattered metal bar close to the ceiling. Whoever was kept there, probably was hanging between life and death.
Scattered documents on the floor indicated that some of the prisoners may have been women.
On a corner of the ceiling hung a small camera to help the militants monitor the inmates from the comfort of their own quarters a floor below, furnished with sofas and water coolers.
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