Syria's Sednaya prison was the 'slaughterhouse' for many: ex-inmates
No other building in the war-torn country of Syria symbolizes the sheer horror of the al-Assad family regime more, its former inmates say, than the Sednaya prison - so much so that they adopted a special nickname for it: slaughterhouse.
I was detained for 21 years. For 15 of those years, I was forcibly disappeared, with no contact with my family,’ Riyad Avlar ...
The Assad regime ran a network of torture centers that swallowed up tens of thousands of Syrians. Now that the rebels have ...
The Assads of Syria used the prison system to lock up political dissidents, from leftists to suspected Islamists.
Sednaya is a large military prison on the outskirts Damascus where the Syrian government detained thousands. Syrian ...
His seeming death at the hands of the government highlights the plight of many Syrians waiting for news on their missing ...
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 ...
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