Christina Goldbaum
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92 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 1 Apr
Christina Goldbaum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So he's moved from detention facility to detention facility and eventually put in a truck with around 150 other people, all of them with iron cuffs on their wrists tied to each other and brought to Sednaya.
He described the conditions in the prison as being just absolutely horrifying. He's brought to this cell that's underground and rarely ever sees sunlight again. A tiny hole. Yeah. There were about 100 other people in the cell with him.
He said that usually they would only get one potato for eight people in a day. And that they would have to cut up that single potato into tiny portions for everyone who was sharing it with him.
And they barely got any water with that, too.
The prison guards would come around and do a roll call of everyone in the cell. And when that happened, they had to have their faces against the wall. And he never actually saw any of the guards who were there. He only ever heard their voices.
And then occasionally, he said often when they were in a bad mood or angry about something, they would drag one of the prisoners out and beat and torture him. Bilal said that occasionally he was the one who was brought out and taken to this room. As he was describing this to me, he kind of stood up and bent over, his hands by his ankles.
And then what happened? And then they would kick him. And two sit on my back. They stepped on his back? They stomped on his back? They would stomp on his face, and they would hit him in the back. What were they beating him with? It's leather.
And he told us that usually when this happened, there would be other guards in the room who would be yelling curses at him and kind of cheering on whoever was actually beating him that day.
And usually other prisoners could hear whoever was being beaten or tortured that day from their cells. They could hear the sound of... They would hear them screaming and crying out for help, and they would know what would come the next time that they were pulled out of the room.
He said it was absolutely unbearable.
And things continued on like that for a while. Until about a week and a half ago, when he told me he started to notice a bit of a change.
What made you think they were afraid? He said it started with the roll calls that they used to do every morning. And typically they would say, roll call you animals to all of the prisoners in the cell.
But then one morning, they said, roll call, you guys, which just struck him as being a little bit strange. Mm-hmm. Somehow they were being more humane to the prisoners, all of a sudden. Exactly. And then the next day they asked them... They told him, how are you? ...how they were in the morning, which he thought was even more strange.
And he was so surprised that he turned his head around to look at the guard.
But he also wasn't beaten for doing that. After three days.
And then the next day... The guards started giving the prisoners small cookies, which he hadn't had in the two years he had been there. And he told me that as this was happening, he was talking to the other prisoners, trying to figure out what exactly was going on.
But they didn't even imagine that they were only days away from walking out the prison's gates and being free. And then on Saturday night, he told me, wake up. One of his cellmates shook him to wake him up and was telling him that something was going on, that maybe they would be freed.
And Bilal didn't believe him. He told him to leave him alone. He was asleep.
And Bilal hears people shouting, God is great. And he realizes that something is going on. And eventually he pieces together that one of the prison guards had stripped off his uniform, opened one of the cells, dropped the keys, and ran. Go out.
And all of the prisoners from that cell had taken the keys, had unlocked the other cells there, and they were rushing out of the doors out of the prison.
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