She is an employee of an NGO supporting refugees, having worked for many years in NGOs assisting minorities in need of help. She was standing by the victims of abuse long before she experienced what it was like to be assaulted by a loved person.

She was abused by her partner for 4 months, until she fought back. Each time he hit her, she would seek an excuse on his behalf, putting the blame on herself, she explained.

"I was looking at the good moments and telling myself the bad moments when he was hitting me would go away," she said.

"When I realized that he will not change, that after 4 months he was searching for reasons to hit me or abuse me verbally or psychologically, I decided to walk away from this relationship. It was the last time he hit me," she noted.

She went through the three stages most victims go through, as her psychologist explained to her: freeze, fight, flee.

On that last day she fought back, she grabbed a knife in self defense,injured her partner and fled. After a marathon legal battle with the support of authorities, NGOs and friends, she was acquitted.

Today she urged victims to talk about their abuse and learn how they can also flee.

"They should not fear. They should speak up. A big mistake I made at that time was that I did not talk about this."

"Perhaps many women think this way- that there is nothing to say, that this is normal, reasonable and natural. It isn't," she stressed.

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