Salwa –a girl in the human street Abdulaziz Ali Omer

Salwa –a girl in the human street
Abdulaziz Ali Omer
It was a beautiful day. Warm but not humid. Salwa, an oriental girl leafed through Al-qudus Al-arabi Newspaper an article about living voices festival in South France. There, 81 poets denounced the un-ceasing aggression against Gaza. Thus went their statement: we the assembled poets of the world in the French town of Sete, we raise our voices a loud in defense of human right and dignity. Poetry is the voice of conscience. Poet expresses the free will and the values of freedom. We regard what is happening as Gaza as a genocide”. There were knocks on the door. AS Salwa answered the door, two police men arrested her on the spot. Handcuffed to the wrist, she entered into other police car, sat down and thought of what charge could be attributed to her and of numerous days of humiliation and torture in the offing.
She was arisen from her stray dreams by the creak of the gate of prison. Two stern-faced police men pushed her towards the interrogation office. On the way, she heard human groans through openings in the windows and ceilings .She also saw some faces bruised with punches and livid blood smudges on their lips. She felt her rosy cheeks that dimpled when she smiled, a smile that made young blood swoon. She just felt cool beads of sweat that washed her like a shower of spring rain.
The two policemen led her into the investigator plush office. It was decked with a flag and on the desk there was an Arabic version of Roger Cohane book: In the eye of the Storm. The investigator quickly explained her far-fetched charge: treason. The interrogator sifted through a file marked in her name. It identified her as the grand-daughter of an Arab nationalism cheerleader and one of history men in his county. In deference to that, the uniformed officer allowed to contact her relatives to tell them of her detention. After that, she was transferred to the State penitentiary, cell No: 52 that accommodated 18 female in-mates but she was sandwiched among them. Salwa story raises two questions: first. Who is worse than small floggers? Second, what is use of telling such tales? Sameer Attallah, a Lebanese journalist has answered: the worse is the bunch of cultured people in service of small lashers and witnesses who commit perjury and make a crime for a political end as an epitome of justice. That is reason why Salwa entered the hell No: 52

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