One guard takes our papers and our valuables and the rest handle the intake.

Your value is not based on your valuables it's based on a whole different set of things.

Some people also put important documents, photos and other valuables in a fireproof safe, just in case.

He orders us to get dressed again. They return our money but keep the bags of valuables. We re distributed among the cells.

The same welcome rituals, surely for the farewell this time. They put our valuables into bags and tether us to a long chain.

If the goods arrive as cargo they are locked in the Valuables Cage until the arrival of the consignees' agent when they are examined by Customs in his presence.

They told me to go to Bentalha...and point out the houses of our elements, the houses of the terrorists, then look for the jewellery that only women would know where it was hidden... my mother and two other women had the job of stripping the dead of their valuables.

All of us have been raped, one way or another, from the time of arrival and while performing the two standard security measures, until the moment we are released. During that time every detainee lives naked, stripped of everything but our morals, which we pack and surrender along with our bags of valuables, praying to God they remain untouched.