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 Slaughterhouse.” A ...
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and her French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot visited the notorious Saydnaya prison on Friday, during their visit to Syria. This is the first visit to Syria by ...
Pictures of missing people hang on the main gate of Syria's Saydnaya prison, which epitomises the atrocities of the ousted Assad government - Copyright AFP/File ...
Riyad Avlar, who spent 20 years in Syrian prisons including a decade in the infamous Saydnaya jail, says he managed to face his trauma through music, theatre and helping others through an NGO that ...
SAYDNAYA, Syria—Inside Bashar al-Assad’s most-notorious death factory, the hangings had become routine. Once a month, around midnight, the guards at Saydnaya Prison would call the names of the ...
In the shadow of the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria stands at the precipice of a new chapter. For over a decade, the regime’s symbols of oppression haunted the collective memory of the Syrian people.
More than a week after Bashar al-Assad fled Syria and his regime collapsed, hundreds of thousands of Syrians still have no answer to two questions that have haunted them for years, even decades. What ...
Saydnaya prison north of the Syrian capital Damascus has become a symbol of the inhumane abuses of the Assad clan, especially since the country's civil war erupted in 2011. The prison complex was the ...
On the upper floors, thin mattresses, handmade pillows, scraps of food and medicine are scattered on the floor of endless cells. Many of the cells and corridors have been burned out. The acrid stench ...
Pictures of missing people hang on the main gate of Syria's Saydnaya prison, which epitomises the atrocities of the ousted Assad government — Sameer Al-DOUMY Saydnaya prison north of the Syrian ...
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 Slaughterhouse.” A ...