Syria’s tortured prisoners: The dead, the missing and the reunited
CNNCNN — In the days following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Syrians have crowded his regime’s notorious detention facilities in a desperate search for loved ones who were jailed or forcibly disappeared. Pictures of al-Hamada’s body surfaced on social media after his remains were found at a Damascus hospital, believed to have been dumped there by officials from Saydnaya prison, a notorious facility that was nicknamed “the slaughterhouse.” The image of his hollowed eyes and beaten face permanently etched in horror made the activist yet again a symbol of the country’s suffering and the regime’s brutality, even in its final hours. They wanted to be a security state that killed people if they even breathed against the regime.” Al-Hamada’s story is emblematic of Syria’s suffering. The US State Department condemned what it called a secret trial and dismissed the claims of espionage as “baseless.” In February 2011, the Supreme State Security court sentenced Tal to five years in prison. “My master: I would like to have power Even for one day To build the ‘republic of feelings,’” it concludes.
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