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.
I was detained for 21 years. For 15 of those years, I was forcibly disappeared, with no contact with my family,’ Riyad Avlar ...
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 ...
REBELS have uncovered tortured bodies, piles of clothes and various equipment used to inflict slow and painful deaths on ...
The Sednaya prison, where thousands of opponents of Bashar-Al Assad’s regime were detained and tortured, was liberated by opposition forces on Sunday. Unconfirmed rumors have been circulating that ...
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 hope of ...
His seeming death at the hands of the government highlights the plight of many Syrians waiting for news on their missing ...
During Syria's civil war, human rights groups estimate that over 100,000 Syrians, including children, were held in appalling conditions at the notorious Saydnaya prison.
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