Drone footage captures the Sednaya prison in the Syrian capital of Damascus, compared with president Bashar al-Assad's ...
DAMASCUS - Syrians are desperately searching the notorious Sednaya prison in the outskirts of Damascus, hoping for any sign of their loved ones who have been missing for years.Qamar Ahmed could not ...
Its history of torture and mass killings casts a long shadow, even as Syrians celebrate the downfall of a dynasty ...
I was detained for 21 years. For 15 of those years, I was forcibly disappeared, with no contact with my family,’ Riyad Avlar ...
Since then, as the war intensified, the prison became, by all accounts, even more terrible. In 2021, the Syrian Observatory ...
The Post's Berlin bureau chief Loveday Morris traveled to Sednaya prison outside Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 10, as Syrians ...
No other building in the war-torn country of Syria symbolizes the sheer horror of the al-Assad family regime more, its former ...
Amnesty International described it as a “human slaughterhouse,” where, other rights groups say, tens of thousands of people were detained, tortured and killed during the 13-year civil war.
Since the 1980s, the Saydnaya Prison has incarcerated people critical of the successive Assad regimes, and served as a "human ...
As families desperately scoured the filthy cells of Syria's forbidding Sednaya prison on Monday for any sign of long-detained ...