Free after 21 years in Assad prisons, a Syrian adjusts to being home ⊕
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74 days ago
Fouad Naal, 52, was in Sednaya and Adra prisons for 21 years until December 8, 2024. A year later, he tells his story.
79 days ago
How al-Assad’s Syria broke its own people in Sednaya prison ⊖⊖
Sednaya, the Assad regime’s flagship prison, became Syria’s slaughterhouse, where thousands were tortured and killed
81 days ago
Syria’s Prison of Secrets: The Search for Sednaya’s Missing ⊖⊖
After al-Assad’s fall, a lawyer uncovers files from a notorious prison that reveals the fate of Syria’s disappeared.
89 days ago
Gang-rape hell in Assad's 'Branch of Death' torture jail: Woman describes 'praying for death' as she was repeatedly raped by guards who accused her of 'sex jihad' ⊖⊖⊖
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Sednaya Prison in Syria is known as the 'Branch of Death' by former detainees for being synonymous with the rape, torture and mass-executions of Assad's dissenters.
4 months ago
Syria arrests ex-military official in charge of notorious Sednaya prison ⊖⊖
The official, Akram Salloum al-Abdullah, is accused of executing detainees, and other 'serious violations'.
5 months ago
Ghost Trail review – pain and paranoia as a Syrian refugee attempts to track down his torturer ○
Jonathan Millet makes his fiction feature debut with an ambitious slow-burn thriller that opens up a complex world of pain
The face of a Syrian refugee is the enigmatic key to this slow-burning drama-…
‘They told me what their bodies had lived through’: how Syrian vigilantes inspired new thriller Ghost Trail ○
Director Jonathan Millet contacted a secret cell that hunts down Assad’s collaborators while researching a new film. He soon realised that it could not be a documentary …
‘I never show a single image …
13 months ago
Sednaya Prison: A Haunting Legacy of Assad's Brutality, Says UN Official ○
Sednaya Prison: A Haunting Legacy of Assad's Brutality, Says UN Official
Inside Syria’s ‘horror city': Sednaya and a country reborn – video ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
A new Syria is emerging from the shadow of the brutal Assad regime. The Guardian’s Bethan McKernan and Ayman Abu Ramouz meet people celebrating their hard-won freedom, but also those grappling with a…
14 months ago
Assad’s Syria horror has ended, what’s next? – video ○
A new Syria is emerging from the shadow of the brutal Assad regime. The Guardian’s Bethan McKernan and Ayman Abu Ramouz meet people celebrating their hard-won freedom, but also those grappling with a…