Sednaya prison – just outside Damascus – has become a byword for the brutality meted out by his enforcers. When the Syrian goverment collapsed, families of those detained rushed there in the ...

They're saying there's an underground prison," he said ... One of those, Radwan Eid, called Sednaya "the human butcher's shop". "The blood that was spilled here cannot just run," he said.

Ropes tied into nooses and covered in what appears to be blood are held aloft for us ... James Longman shows a crowd holding nooses used at Sednaya prison near Damascus, Syria.

A man looking for relatives at Sednaya prison holds up blood-stained nooses found inside [Ali Haj Suleiman/Al Jazeera] Mohammad al-Bakour, 32, said his brother Abdullah was arrested in 2012 for ...

Dictator Bashar al-Assad fled Syria last week bringing an end to decades of violence and intimidation by his family dynasty which included instances of torture and executions ...

Sednaya prison, nicknamed the "human slaughterhouse ... Floors of cells were coated in blood and pus from tortured prisoners, according to a 2017 Amnesty report, with the bodies of dead prisoners ...

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 ...

As families desperately scoured the filthy cells of Syria's forbidding Sednaya prison on Monday for any sign of long-detained relatives after its gates were flung open by rebels, hope for finding ...