From the Castle to the Torture Chamber
“We know you know the number. You have to tell us. Why won’t you tell us?”
She’s been there, held captive, for eight – maybe ten days. Deprived of sleep, it’s hard to keep track of the time. Day and night, her captors take turns entering the room to shout at her.
The 58-year-old woman in that chair wasn’t a terrorist or a spy. She wasn’t guilty of some underworld crime that would justify such torture. This was a woman who not too long ago was sitting in a much fancier chair in her lavish castle.