Thousands of people imprisoned for years walked out of Syria's prisons after President Bashar al-Assad's overthrow.

At Sednaya Prison, where prisoners were brutally tortured, starved, and killed, people cheered, cried, and shouted as they poured out of the gates.

RUTH SHERLOCK, BYLINE: Hundreds of people walk up the snaking dirt paths that lead up the hill to Sednaya prison. Many are immaculately dressed, as if they hope that today they might finally meet ...

Syrians approaching Sednaya, the Assad regime’s most notorious prison. They came by the thousands, hoping for news of relatives who had disappeared inside the Assad government’s security ...

This is where the road to Syria's Sednaya prison begins — another of humanity's grim discoveries in the realm of torture and executions. One can now enter Bashar al-Assad's death camp only ...

Rebels who entered the prison complex on Saturday night set the fields ablaze in an effort to set off the mines. Within hours, hundreds of prisoners were walking out of Sednaya’s gates, stunned.

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 ...

The child in the video can be seen walking out of a cell after rebels stormed the corridors of the Sednaya prison, releasing all those who had been held captive, including women and children.

At Sednaya Prison, where prisoners were brutally tortured, starved, and killed, people cheered, cried, and shouted as they poured out of the gates.