Rehab al-Allawi, a Damascus resident originally from Deir al-Zor, was an engineering student at Damascus University before the Syrian Revolution. Rehab was 25 years old when the Raids Brigade, a special raids unit of the military police, arrested her on January 17, 2013. The unit came to her family’s home in Damascus where she was arrested. According to Rehab’s brother Hamza, Rehab worked with a loose network of activists where she assisted internally displaced persons who had fled Homs. After her arrest, Rehab’s family sought information through personal contacts within the Syrian government. They paid over US$18,000 to various officials in the Syrian military and security services to gain information about Rehab and to secure her release. After a few months, a Syrian brigadier-general told the family Rehab had died of a stroke. Rehab’s other brother Bassam asked to see her grave, and in March 2013, an officer accompanied him to al-Najha cemetery on the outskirts of Damascus. The...