I was detained for 21 years. For 15 of those years, I was forcibly disappeared, with no contact with my family,’ Riyad Avlar ...
The Assad regime ran a network of torture centers that swallowed up tens of thousands of Syrians. Now that the rebels have ...
Since the 1980s, the Saydnaya Prison has incarcerated people critical of the successive Assad regimes, and served as a "human ...
His seeming death at the hands of the government highlights the plight of many Syrians waiting for news on their missing ...
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 ...
There are, sadly, many places in the world where horrific abuses are committed. On the white walls of the television and ...