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How Sednaya’s liberation exposed decades of systematic torture under Syria’s Assad regime

  • Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham captured the infamous regime jail on Dec. 8 after a dramatic 10-day campaign to oust Bashar Assad
  • Built in the 1980s, Sednaya became a symbol of state terror, with rights groups calling it a ‘human slaughterhouse’
By Nadia Al-Faour - Robert Edwards ·