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After the fall of the Assad regime, Syrians reckon with the devastating human toll of the war from hundreds of thousands killed to thousands still missing. A look at the figures that underscore the ...
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa spoke to former Syrian prisoners who arrived in Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage.
The Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart found the 33-year-old man guilty of leading a militia that carried out brutal attacks ...
The injured man ended up surviving. It was the moment Moaz realised he could help people during his time in Sednaya Prison, known as the "human slaughterhouse" for the tens of thousands of inmates ...
The four were jailed at Sednaya, a prison north of Damascus and under the supervision of the Department of Defense and operated by military police. It was infamous for its brutal torture methods; ...
ALBAWABA - Shooting for the new series, titled Qaysar (Caesar), has begun in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Feb. 24, which will talk about the torture stories that took place in Sednaya Prison.
Philip Luther, a senior research advisor at Amnesty International, has described Anadolu’s footage from Sednaya Prison in Syria as an "important piece of evidence," reinforcing the organization ...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk visited the notorious Sednaya prison near Damascus, describing it as "haunted by the memories of utmost cruelty." Thousands of detainees were ...
Türk also met a former detainee who recounted brutal treatment, including extrajudicial executions. The prison, inaccessible to international bodies, has long been a symbol of regime oppression.
ALBAWABA - Teams from the Anadolu Agency (AA) have located the notorious "execution room" in Sednaya Prison, which was the scene of mass executions and systematic torture carried out by the ...