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Inside Sednaya prison as Syrians hunt for the disappeared

The Post's Berlin bureau chief Loveday Morris traveled to Sednaya prison outside Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 10, as Syrians searched for missing relatives.

The New Yorker · 8h

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 executed there since the war began.

DPA International on MSN · 1d

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.

Anadolu Ajansi15h

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 ...

The New Yorker8h

Inside Syria’s Most Fearsome Prison

On Wednesday, at Sednaya, a political prison in Syria, hundreds of people prowled the grounds. It was the third day after an astonishing rebel offensive deposed Bashar al-Assad, who had ruled as a ...

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 ...

1don MSN

Inside Assad regime's notorious prison: 'Tortured bodies, near-skeletal prisoners'

The Assads of Syria used the prison system to lock up political dissidents, from leftists to suspected Islamists.

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 ...

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