Intisar Nahi is a prominent activist and paramedic very influential in the Tishreen ‘October’ Movement in Iraq. In December 2020, Nahi said she was kidnapped and tortured by an unknown armed group, believed to be linked to Iranian-backed militias. She said they pierced her body with an electric drill. Four days after her abduction, she was found alive, dumped on a highway south of Baghdad. Then, again in late May 2021, she was shot by gunmen on a motorbike, which led to an injury in the hand, yet she was able to escape.

Intisar Nahi’s Testimony:

I am a skilled nurse, Intisar Nahi, born on 8/8/1988. I joined the revolutionaries on 10/3/2019. I was attending Karama Al-Alawi Educational Hospital, and on 3/10 we received wounded people from Karada Mariam area, and there was live fire shooting and I took wounded people to Karama Educational Hospital and I hid them, so that they would not be arrested. Then I met revolutionaries and my first injury was on 10/27/2019, and one of the rebels transferred me to Al-Kindi Hospital, after which I returned to Al-Tahririya while I was injured. Later, I was stabbed with a knife, kidnapped, tortured and survived a failed assassination attempt.