Syrians emptied Assad’s prisons. They’re filling up again ...
Dec 22, 2025 · A year ago, Syria’s new leader pledged to 'close the notorious prisons' run by Bashar al-Assad. But prisons and detention centers are again operating. And beatings, …
Sednaya Prison - Wikipedia
Efforts to establish Sednaya Prison began in 1978, when the Syrian government confiscated land from local landowners, assigning it to the Ministry of Defense to construct a prison.
Glimpses of horror emerge inside Syria's Saydnaya prison ...
SAYDNAYA, Syria (AP) — Behind the coils of razor wire and concrete walls, glimpses of the horror emerge from the warren of dank, airless corridors of what has been dubbed “The …
Inside Syria’s Most Fearsome Prison - The New York Times
Aug 29, 2025 · For decades, the Assad regime locked up its opponents in prisons like Sednaya. The New York Times created a 3-D model of the prison and its brutal conditions.
Al-Assad’s ‘human slaughterhouses’: What to know about Syria ...
Dec 9, 2024 · During a lightning offensive to capture Syria, opposition fighters have freed thousands of people from a network of terrifying prisons that characterised the repressive al …
Inside Syria’s ‘slaughterhouse’ prison where Assad’s critics ...
Dec 10, 2024 · As Syrians rejoiced across the country this week, many began the frantic search for missing loved ones who had been forcibly disappeared under Bashar al-Assad’s brutal …
Rebel victory in Syria exposes horrors of Saydnaya prison as ...
Dec 10, 2024 · Many of the prison locations in Syria were kept secret. Rights groups estimate that around 100,000 people went missing during the civil war, many of them behind those prisons' …