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Tracking Prisons / Lingo
Take Pride in Yourself
Arabic Term:
اعتزّ بنفسك | I'tazz binafsak
Country:
Syria
Definition:
A jailer’s demand to the prisoner to take up a "dignified stance," meaning for a prisoner to raise his head.
Notes:
Terminology from Tadmor Prison.
Testimony:
Take pride in yourself, and then he hit him on his head with a judo strike, killing the prisoner on the spot.
Source: Ali Abu Dehn, Return from Hell: Memories of Tadmor and its Sisters, Dar Al-Jadeed, Beirut, 2012, p. 126.

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