Inside Syria's 'human slaughterhouse' execution block: Chilling images show punch bag used by guards to practice torturing prisoners and scattered possessions left behind

Hanging from the ceiling of the dank, dilapidated prison cell, and above the mountain of dirty prison uniforms is a sun-bleached punching bag, far too pale to have been replaced recently. Human rights groups say more than 100,000 Syrians have disappeared since the brutal dictator's crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011, and since the dictator's fall, their loved ones have been searching for answers Hanging from the ceiling of the dank, dilapidated prison cell, and above the mountain of dirty prison uniforms is a sun-bleached punching bag, far too pale to have been replaced recently. One particularly saddening image showed a slightly-wrong quotes from a Celine Dion song, incorrectly attributed to 'Maria Carry' Hopeless prisoners apparently scratched messages into their cell walls Messages were seemingly burned into the ceilings and walls of the cells 'It's evil like you've never seen,' Mr Kaid told the Mail after three days of searching the compound following the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Assad's fall has led many to hope to find answers to questions over what happened to their loved ones Syrians have been flooding into the prison to seek answers to where their loved ones may be Piles of rubbish were see shoved into Sednaya's cells A spokesman said they 'shared the profound disappointment of the families of the thousands who remain missing and whose fates remain unknown'. Torn pictures of dictator Bashar al-Assad were seen above doorframes in the prison An aerial view of 'White Building' also called as the execution block of Sednaya Prison, infamous for torture under the toppled Bashar al-Assad regime in Damascus, Syria on December 10, 2024 Syrian rebels yesterday said they found around 40 bodies with signs of torture in the mortuary of a military hospital that served Saydnaya.