Syrian woman searches Sednaya prison for her relatives
STORY: When she heard that rebels had toppled Syria’s brutal decades-old regime, Hayat al-Turki went to search for her ...
Middle East Eye5h
What is Sednaya? Inside Bashar al-Assad’s prison of torture and fear
Its history of torture and mass killings casts a long shadow, even as Syrians celebrate the downfall of a dynasty ...
Middle East Eye7h
Why Syria’s Sednaya prison is called a ‘Human slaughterhouse’
The Sednaya prison, located near Damascus, is notorious for its brutal treatment of detainees — most of whom are political ...
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 ...
The book of death: List of '29,000 people executed by Assad's prison murderers is discovered in human slaughterhouse'
Syrian rebels discovered what is being dubbed the Book of Death as they ransacked the infamous Sednaya prison, where tortured ...
The New Yorker19h
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 ...
Families of Syria’s Disappeared Search for Loved Ones in Sednaya Prison
In northern Syria’s Latakia region, opposition fighters set fire to the tomb of Hafez al-Assad, Syria’s longtime ...
Syrian rebels find ‘Book of Death’ with names of 29,000 people executed by vicious Assad regime at ‘slaughterhouse jail’
SYRIAN rebels have discovered a chilling “Book of Death” with names of nearly 30,000 people executed in Assad’s ...
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 a TV crew finds a Syrian prisoner who didn’t know tyrant Bashar Al-Assad had been overthrown.
Moment US tourist jailed in Assad prison is found after 7 months & tells of being deafened by inmates harrowing screams
THIS is the unbelievable moment an American tourist jailed in one of Assad’s brutal prisons is found – and tells of the deafening harrowing screams from tortured fellow inmates. Travis ...
The Times of Israel23h
Woman haunts infamous Syrian prison, scouring for signs of missing relatives
Hayat al-Turki has searched the notorious Sednaya prison for four days, finding list of over 7,000 prisoners, wonders if ...
Huge Crowd in Damascus for Funeral of Syrian Activist Found Dead in Sednaya Prison
A huge crowd gathered in Damascus on Thursday, December 12, to participate in the funeral of a Syrian activist found dead in the Sednaya prison, according to news reports.Footage filmed by Syrian ...