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Assad’s most-notorious death factory, the hangings had become routine. Once a month, around midnight, the guards at Sednaya ...
Two prisoners who spent years inside Syria's deadliest prison are now sharing the horrors they endured at Sednaya military prison.
Although no charges were officially disclosed, Hussein’s long-standing role at Sednaya has drawn international attention for ...
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 ...
Syrian opposition factions have released around 3,000 former detainees from Sednaya Prison alone over the past week. Social media platforms are flooded with images and videos of released Syrians ...
SEDNAYA PRISON, Syria — The grounds of Syria’s most notorious prison are strewn with scraps of paper, offering clues to the horrors meted out within its walls. One order from 2020, signed by ...
Gruesome deaths at Sednaya Prison are nothing new. According to a 2017 Amnesty International report, over 13,000 people were extrajudicially executed at the prison between 2011 and 2015.
SEDNAYA, Syria — As families desperately scoured the filthy cells of Syria's forbidding Sednaya prison on Monday for any sign of long-detained relatives after its gates were flung open by rebels ...
2 People display the photos of their relatives on mobile phones as they join members of the Syrian civil defense group, known as the White Helmets, in search of prisoners at the Sednaya prison in ...
Omar Alshogre spent time in Sednaya prison in Syria. He gives a real-life look at what life was like there, and what it was like to escape and live as a civilian.
Reuters. People gather as members of the Syrian civil defence group, known as the White Helmets, search for prisoners underground at Sednaya prison, after rebels seized the capital and announced ...