Middle East Eye1d
What is Sednaya? Inside Bashar al-Assad’s prison of torture and fear
Its history of torture and mass killings casts a long shadow, even as Syrians celebrate the downfall of a dynasty ...
Anadolu Ajansi2d
Ex-inmates of notorious Sednaya prison in Damascus call for preserving records to ensure accountability
I was detained for 21 years. For 15 of those years, I was forcibly disappeared, with no contact with my family,’ Riyad Avlar ...
Syrian national living in S.C. charged with torturing dissidents at Damascus prison in 2000s
A former Syrian government official residing in South Carolina has been charged with torturing political dissidents at a ...
Syrians descend on Damascus hospital in search for country's missing
Family members and friends of thousands of missing Syrians are continuing their search for those disappeared by former ...
All about Syria’s Saydnaya prison, from where thousands of prisoners have been freed
Since the 1980s, the Saydnaya Prison has incarcerated people critical of the successive Assad regimes, and served as a "human ...
Middle East Eye3d
Mazen al-Hamada's peers 'shocked' as Syrian activist's body found in Sednaya prison
His seeming death at the hands of the government highlights the plight of many Syrians waiting for news on their missing ...
Channel 4 News3d
Inside Sednaya: Blood stained nooses and giant iron press
Sednaya prison – just outside Damascus – has become a byword for the brutality meted out by his enforcers. When the Syrian government collapsed, families of those detained rushed there in the hope of ...
Inside Syria's notorious Saydnaya prison, families search for the lost: Reporter's notebook
There are, sadly, many places in the world where horrific abuses are committed. On the white walls of the television and ...