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.
As families desperately scoured the filthy cells of Syria's forbidding Sednaya prison on Monday for any sign of long-detained ...
For years, we have heard claims of mass executions taking place there, and torture being used on inmates. As we walked through the doors of the prison, we got a window into that horrific back story.
Families are descending on one of Damascus' main hospitals in a desperate bid to identify the bodies of their missing ...
His seeming death at the hands of the government highlights the plight of many Syrians waiting for news on their missing ...
On his unexpected release, Lebanese national Souhail Hamwi says: ‘We knew there were events happening outside, but we never ...
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 ...
In Syria’s capital Damascus the hope of a country freed from its longtime dictator Bashar al Assad was starting to fade at ...
During Syria's civil war, human rights groups estimate that over 100,000 Syrians, including children, were held in appalling conditions at the notorious Saydnaya prison.
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