Inside Syria's prisons after Assad's fall
NBC News' Richard Engel reports from inside one of Syria's most notorious prisons, Saydnaya military prison nicknamed "the human slaughterhouse." Thousands of people in Syria have rushed to the country's prisons after the fall of the Assad regime searching for any trace of loved ones they feared had disappeared into their unseen depths.
Drone footage captures the Sednaya prison in the Syrian capital of Damascus, compared with president Bashar al-Assad's ...
Its history of torture and mass killings casts a long shadow, even as Syrians celebrate the downfall of a dynasty ...
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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 ...
Since then, as the war intensified, the prison became, by all accounts, even more terrible. In 2021, the Syrian Observatory ...
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.
No other building in the war-torn country of Syria symbolises the sheer horror of the Assad family regime more, its former ...
I was detained for 21 years. For 15 of those years, I was forcibly disappeared, with no contact with my family,’ Riyad Avlar ...
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Inside Sednaya prison as Syrians hunt for the disappearedThe Post's Berlin bureau chief Loveday Morris traveled to Sednaya prison outside Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 10, as Syrians ...
The Sednaya prison, located near Damascus, is notorious for its brutal treatment of detainees — most of whom are political ...
No other building in the war-torn country of Syria symbolizes the sheer horror of the al-Assad family regime more, its former ...
Since the 1980s, the Saydnaya Prison has incarcerated people critical of the successive Assad regimes, and served as a "human ...
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