I was detained for 21 years. For 15 of those years, I was forcibly disappeared, with no contact with my family,’ Riyad Avlar ...
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 ...
Since the 1980s, the Saydnaya Prison has incarcerated people critical of the successive Assad regimes, and served as a "human ...
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 ...