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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 ...
Crowds Throng to Prison in Syria, Desperate to Find Relatives and Friends
The Assad regime ran a network of torture centers that swallowed up tens of thousands of Syrians. Now that the rebels have ...
The New Yorker15h
Searching for Loved Ones in a Newly Liberated Syrian Prison
Since then, as the war intensified, the prison became, by all accounts, even more terrible. In 2021, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights calculated that as many as thirty thousand people had been ...
Outside the infamous Sednaya prison
Sky's Yalda Hakim has been to see Sednaya prison, on the outskirts of Damascus and spoke to family who's loved one was killed there.
Middle East Eye1d
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 News1d
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 ...