Moment TV crew discovers Syrian prisoner who didn’t realise Assad had been toppled as he says ‘oh God, there’s light’
THIS is the incredible moment TV crew find a Syrian prisoner who didn’t know tyrant Assad had been overthrown. Thousands of ...
‘Executed, Executed, Dead From Sickness’: The Grim Records From Syria’s Notorious Prison
Syrians searching for missing loved ones are scouring the country’s most notorious prison for information and anyone still ...
Middle East crisis – live: Syria rebel leader vows revenge against Assad henchmen as Israel strikes ports
France joins Arab nations in criticising Israel for exploiting the Syria crisis to capture more territory near the Golan Heights ...
Sky's Yalda Hakim goes into notorious Sednaya prison on outskirts of Damascus
For years, we have heard claims of mass executions taking place there, and torture being used on inmates. As we walked ...
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Our Man in Damascus: When Syria Deployed Its Torture Chambers and Torturers for the CIA
With Bashar al-Assad having fled Damascus to one of his 20 luxury suites in Russia (valued at $30 million), it is worth ...
Inside Syria's notorious Sednaya prison dubbed the 'human slaughterhouse'
Sky News sees bags of faeces, nooses, a torture chamber and an alleged "crushing machine" inside the facility, warned about for years by human rights groups as a symbol of the brutality of the Assad ...
Syria – live: Tomb of Assad’s father set on fire by rebels as France calls out Israel for buffer zone capture
France joins Arab nations in criticising Israel for exploiting the Syria crisis to capture more territory near the Golan ...
Fall Of Assad’s Regime Permanently Closes ‘Human Slaughterhouse’ Of Syria | Life Inside Saydnaya Prison
December 8, 2024, marked a turning point in Syria’s civil war with the fall of Assad’s regime. Yet, for those who survived the torture of Saydnaya, the joy of freedom was bittersweet. As the war in ...
Assad’s secret police arrested and tortured me – because of my name
Mohammed Ismail al-Daher’s only crime was having the same name as a suspect wanted by the Palestine Branch, one of the most ...
Assad’s secret police arrested and tortured me four times. My crime? I had same name as a wanted man
Sometimes it took months to convince them it was a case of mistaken identity, that I was merely a mechanic from Raqqa, says Syrian victim ...
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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 ...
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Brief notes on Syria’s prospects
I was born and raised in Damascus, Syria, where I lived for ten years of my life. My nationalism, as a member of the diaspora, is naturally f ...