No prison is more infamous than Sednaya, just north of the capital, Damascus. Rebel forces released many detainees from the notorious Sednaya military prison in Damascus. The government complex ...

Many in Syria want to enshrine remnants of their recent history, not only to remember it, but as a cautionary tale.

Syrians looking for information on people who disappeared under the former regime pick through documents at the infamous Sednaya prison near Damascus on Tuesday. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The ...

At Sednaya Prison, where prisoners were brutally tortured, starved, and killed, people cheered, cried, and shouted as they poured out of the gates. Rescuers pulled around 700 people from the ...

Hundreds attend the first gallery show openings since fall of Bashar al-Assad, honouring former detainees and disappeared ...

In the shadow of Syria’s brutal civil war, one institution stands as a chilling symbol of the regime’s systemic violence: Sednaya prison. Referred to as the "Death Factory" or the "Human ...

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 ...

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, hope for finding ...

A former detainee at Syria's notorious Sednaya prison on the outskirts of Demascus is urging the preservation of critical records to ensure accountability for crimes committed during the deposed ...

Families hunt through labyrinthine prison complex Thousands wait outside hoping for news of loved ones Efforts to find prisoners in hidden cells fruitless SEDNAYA, Syria, Dec 9 (Reuters ...