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Ex-inmates of notorious Sednaya prison in Damascus call for preserving records to ensure accountability
I was detained for 21 years. For 15 of those years, I was forcibly disappeared, with no contact with my family,’ Riyad Avlar ...
Crowds Throng to Prison in Syria, Desperate to Find Relatives and Friends
The Assad regime ran a network of torture centers that swallowed up tens of thousands of Syrians. Now that the rebels have ...
Middle East Eye1d
Mazen al-Hamada's peers 'shocked' as Syrian activist's body found in Sednaya prison
His seeming death at the hands of the government highlights the plight of many Syrians waiting for news on their missing ...
Channel 4 News1d
Inside Sednaya: Blood stained nooses and giant iron press
Sednaya prison – just outside Damascus – has become a byword for the brutality meted out by his enforcers. When the Syrian government collapsed, families of those detained rushed there in the hope of ...
Syria's celebrations muted by evidence of torture in Assad's notorious prisons
In Syria’s capital Damascus the hope of a country freed from its longtime dictator Bashar al Assad was starting to fade at ...
U.S. charges Syrian officials with war crimes days after Assad regime falls
The Justice Department has announced war crime charges against two top Syrian officials just days after the fall of their ...