Syria's Sednaya prison was the 'slaughterhouse' for many: ex-inmates
No other building in the war-torn country of Syria symbolizes the sheer horror of the al-Assad family regime more, its former inmates say, than the Sednaya prison - so much so that they adopted a special nickname for it: slaughterhouse.
Since then, as the war intensified, the prison became, by all accounts, even more terrible. In 2021, the Syrian Observatory ...
I was detained for 21 years. For 15 of those years, I was forcibly disappeared, with no contact with my family,’ Riyad Avlar ...
The Assad regime ran a network of torture centers that swallowed up tens of thousands of Syrians. Now that the rebels have ...
REBELS have uncovered tortured bodies, piles of clothes and various equipment used to inflict slow and painful deaths on ...
The Sednaya prison, where thousands of opponents of Bashar-Al Assad’s regime were detained and tortured, was liberated by opposition forces on Sunday. Unconfirmed rumors have been circulating that ...
Sednaya prison – just outside Damascus – has become a byword for the brutality meted out by his enforcers. When the Syrian goverment collapsed, families of those detained rushed there in the hope of ...
Abu Mohammed al-Jolani also said he would dissolve the former regime's security forces, in a statement seen by Reuters.
The fall of Bashar Assad's regime in Syria has provided a unobstructed view of the torture and persecution inflicted on the nation's prisoners.
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