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Saydnaya prison



The horror of Saydnaya jail, symbol of Assad excesses

  • The prison complex was the site of extrajudicial executions, torture and forced disappearances
  • When Syrian militants entered Damascus on Sunday after their lightning advance that toppled the Assad government, they announced they had seized Saydnaya and freed its inmates
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Former prisoner revisits Syrian air base ordeal

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Syrian woman haunts Assad’s notorious prison for clues of relatives’ fate

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Relatives of Syria’s disappeared seek closure in Damascus morgues

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Red Cross urges Syrians not to exhume their own dead

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