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The Association of Detainees & the Missing in Sednaya Prison said that it had obtained a document showing there had been about 4,300 detainees as of Oct. 28 and that approximately that number had ...
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.
Assad's brutal regime saw thousands die in his 'human slaughterhouse' prisons - with some guards getting so carried away they ...
SEDNAYA, Syria, Dec 9 (Reuters) - 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 ...
Sednaya Prison near Damascus was the symbol of the Assad dictatorship. Now that the regime has been overthrown, thousands are coming here to search for their loved-ones. There isn't much left to find.
She had tracked him down in Sednaya and paid a prison officer a $9,000 bribe to visit him. When the guards dragged a young man toward her — feet shackled, hands tied, skin hanging off his bones ...
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. The fall of Bashar al-Assad's ...
Drone footage captures the Sednaya prison in the Syrian capital of Damascus, compared with president Bashar al-Assad's luxurious presidential palace. The footage was taken days after Islamist-led ...
Inside Sednaya prison in Damascus. (Foreign Correspondent: Stephanie March)He started to think it might be the last time he'd see his family but he didn't allow himself to show it in front of them.
It added: "It is noteworthy that Daghestani previously held several positions, including head of the investigations department at Sednaya Prison and head of the security committee in the Eastern ...