At a Syria morgue, people search for loved ones killed by Assad regime
3 months, 2 weeks ago

At a Syria morgue, people search for loved ones killed by Assad regime

Al Jazeera  

Mohammad Chaeeb spoke softly into his phone, telling a relative the grim news: he found his brother at the Al-Mujtahid Hospital morgue. He doesn’t even have eyes.” The dead man was jailed five months ago, disappearing into a dark prison system under the rule of President Bashar al-Assad. “But dozens of families are arriving, and the numbers don’t match.” Some bodies came from the notorious Sednaya prison, still dressed in prisoner uniforms, Qasser said. “Give me my children, search for my children!” Other Syrians, like Imad Habbal, stood motionless in the morgue, coming to grips with the reality and injustice of their loss. Just because he came back to his country?” Diaa Habbal, a Syrian who had been living in Saudi Arabia since 2003, returned to Damascus in mid-2024 to visit his family, his brother said.

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Syrian rebels arrest top official who 'ordered thousands of executions for Assad' at notorious Sednaya Prison - after furious gunbattle in Russian-controlled Tartus
3 months ago

Syrian rebels arrest top official who 'ordered thousands of executions for Assad' at notorious Sednaya Prison - after furious gunbattle in Russian-controlled Tartus

Daily Mail  

Syria's new authorities have arrested a military justice official who is believed to have ordered thousands of death sentences for detainees in the notorious Sednaya prison under the regime of Bashar al-Assad, a war monitor said Thursday. According to the Association of Detainees and Missing Persons of Sednaya Prison, Kanjo Hassan headed Syria's military field court from 2011 to 2014, …

Rape hell in Assad's prisons: Former inmate describes how he saw boy cry for his mother as he was sexually assaulted by Syrian torturers.. and was himself gang-raped by three 'laughing' guards
3 months ago

Rape hell in Assad's prisons: Former inmate describes how he saw boy cry for his mother as he was sexually assaulted by Syrian torturers.. and was himself gang-raped by three 'laughing' guards

Daily Mail  

A former inmate in one of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's prisons has revealed how he saw a boy cry for his mother while he was sexually abused by his torturers. The former prisoner said that memories of his time in the horrific prison system came back to him upon seeing the swathe of prisoners leaving Damascus after Assad fell. An …

Proof that Syrian 'prisoner' discovered and freed by CNN crew was one of Assad's ruthless henchmen as ex-intelligence officer is now missing
3 months, 1 week ago

Proof that Syrian 'prisoner' discovered and freed by CNN crew was one of Assad's ruthless henchmen as ex-intelligence officer is now missing

Daily Mail  

A shocking image of the Syrian 'prisoner' who was discovered locked up Damascus prison by journalists proves that he was actually one of former dictator Bashar al-Assad's henchmen who ruthlessly killed and tortured inmates. But earlier this week Syrian fact-checking organization Verify-Sy reported that the man in the clip was in fact a first first lieutenant in the Syrian Air …

Syria: Freed prisoner identified as intelligence officer, ‘wasn’t aware that Assad regime had fallen’
3 months, 1 week ago

Syria: Freed prisoner identified as intelligence officer, ‘wasn’t aware that Assad regime had fallen’

Live Mint  

A man who was recently freed by the rebels from a Damascus jai lwas reportedly a former intelligence officer of the ousted Syrian regime The man was found while the news outlet was looking for missing U.S. journalist Austin Tice. He said he was being held in a jail that had been run by the Syrian air force’s intelligence services …

Syria's Sednaya prison has been called the 'human slaughterhouse' but 'high-value prisoners' may still be hidden in secret locations
3 months, 1 week ago

Syria's Sednaya prison has been called the 'human slaughterhouse' but 'high-value prisoners' may still be hidden in secret locations

ABC  

Syria's Sednaya prison is where the extreme brutality of the Assad regime over the last 13 years was at its worst. It's believed the "salt rooms" were used as makeshift morgues to store dead bodies with the smell of decomposing corpses masked by ankle-deep granules of salt, according to the Association of Detainees and the Missing. Austin's brother Simon Tice …

‘Until my last breath’: Searching for relatives at Syria’s ‘slaughterhouse’
3 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Until my last breath’: Searching for relatives at Syria’s ‘slaughterhouse’

Al Jazeera  

Thousands of Syrian prisoners have been released from the notorious Sednaya prison, but many are still missing. “But the joy is incomplete because there are of missing detainees, and we haven’t heard any news about them at all.” False hope Sednaya’s two buildings may have been holding as many as 20,000 prisoners, according to Amnesty International. “We’re waiting, hoping that …

Syrian anti-Assad activist and 35 others laid to rest in Damascus after torture
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Syrian anti-Assad activist and 35 others laid to rest in Damascus after torture

Hindustan Times  

Hundreds of Syrians on Thursday buried activist Mazen al-Hamada, whose body was found alongside 35 others in a hospital morgue near Damascus following the ousting of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad. On Thursday, outside the Al-Mujtahid hospital in Damascus, hundreds mourned Hamada's death, whose ordeal was emblematic of the atrocities suffered under Assad rule. "We won't forget your blood Mazen," they …

Families Identify Bodies of Detainees Killed Under Assad Regime in Damascus Morgue
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Families Identify Bodies of Detainees Killed Under Assad Regime in Damascus Morgue

Deccan Chronicle  

Damascus: Mohammad Chaeeb softly spoke to a relative on the phone from the morgue in Damascus, his voice laden with grief as he identified his brother’s body, found in a chilling state. He doesn’t even have eyes,” Chaeeb said, describing the gruesome sight of his sibling, Sami, whose body showed signs of torture. Sami had disappeared into Syria’s brutal prison …

Battered corpses show the horrors of life and death under Syria’s Assad
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Battered corpses show the horrors of life and death under Syria’s Assad

CNN  

Damascus, Syria CNN — The bruised and battered bodies inside the morgue of Mujtahid Hospital are hard to look at — tangible evidence of the brutal regime of toppled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. “Even in the Middle Ages, they didn’t torture people like this.” Assad fled to Russia on Sunday after a lightning advance by Syria’s rebel groups, and the …

Syrians flock to morgues looking for loved ones who perished in Assad’s prisons
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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Syrians flock to morgues looking for loved ones who perished in Assad’s prisons

Associated Press  

DAMASCUS — Mohammad Chaeeb spoke softly into his phone, telling a relative the grim news: He found his brother at the morgue. Many people are flocking to morgues, hoping to identify loved ones who were either killed or imprisoned under President Bashar Assad’s government, which collapsed over the weekend. Many are flocking to morgues, hoping to identify loved ones who …

Syrians flock to morgues looking for loved ones who perished in Assad's prisons
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Syrians flock to morgues looking for loved ones who perished in Assad's prisons

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. He doesn’t even have eyes.” The dead man was …

Inside Syria's 'human slaughterhouse' execution block: Chilling images show punch bag used by guards to practice torturing prisoners and scattered possessions left behind
3 months, 2 weeks ago

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

Daily Mail  

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 …

‘We think he died just before regime collapsed’: Syrians scour morgues full of tortured bodies
Trending News
3 months, 2 weeks ago

‘We think he died just before regime collapsed’: Syrians scour morgues full of tortured bodies

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Abdulsafer Safi searched hospitals, prisons …

Syria news: Kid scheduled to be executed the same day, walks out of Bashar Assad’s ‘human slaughterhouse’
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Syria news: Kid scheduled to be executed the same day, walks out of Bashar Assad’s ‘human slaughterhouse’

Live Mint  

Syria news: Syria witnessed a historic moment, after a kid who was scheduled to be ‘slaughtered’ the same day, walked out of a cell of the Sednaya prison, which has been dubbed as Assad's ‘human slaughterhouse,’ reported Al Jazeera. ‘Hidden underground cells’ at Sednaya prison An intense search was underway at the Sednaya prison on Monday for “hidden underground cells,” …

Desperate relatives of Syrian prisoners detained in hell-hole prison scour 'human slaughterhouse' near Damascus for signs of life
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Desperate relatives of Syrian prisoners detained in hell-hole prison scour 'human slaughterhouse' near Damascus for signs of life

Daily Mail  

Five years after his uncle was snatched by Syrian regime henchmen and thrown in the notorious Saydnaya prison, last week's lightening offensive finally gave Firas Kaid hope. The Damascus Countryside Governorate has had to go on social media to ask people to provide the codes to electronic underground doors to free the ‘more than 100,000 detainees who can be seen …

Inside Assad regime's notorious prison: 'Tortured bodies, near-skeletal prisoners'
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Inside Assad regime's notorious prison: 'Tortured bodies, near-skeletal prisoners'

Hindustan Times  

As news of the fall of Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria spread, Syrian children, the elderly, women and men sprint toward the exit of the infamous Sednaya Prison on the outskirts of Damascus. People search through papers as they join members of the Syrian civil defence group, known as the White Helmets, to search for prisoners underground at Sednaya prison, …

Rotting corpses found piled in Syrian prison: Rebel leader announces every torturer will be hunted down, as it emerges how girls and boys were gang-raped and inmates forced to kill each other in a liv
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Rotting corpses found piled in Syrian prison: Rebel leader announces every torturer will be hunted down, as it emerges how girls and boys were gang-raped and inmates forced to kill each other in a liv

Daily Mail  

The thousands upon thousands of Syrians rejoicing the fall of President Bashar al-Assad have plenty to be happy about. A view of dead bodies, who were tortured to death, at Al-Mujtahid Hospital as teams carry out investigation in secret compartments at Sednaya Prison after the fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, Syria on December 10, 2024 A view of …

'Where are they?': Thousands scour Syria's most horrific prison but find no sign of their loved ones
3 months, 2 weeks ago

'Where are they?': Thousands scour Syria's most horrific prison but find no sign of their loved ones

New Indian Express  

SAYDNAYA: They came from all over Syria, tens of thousands. The first place they rushed to after the fall of their longtime tormentor, former President Bashar Assad, was here: Saydnaya Prison, a place so notorious for its horrors it was long known as "the slaughterhouse." For the past two days, all have been looking for signs of loved ones who …

Syrian man, 57, arrested by Assad thugs aged just 18 is FOUND looking dazed outside hellhole prison where he was caged for four decades
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Syrian man, 57, arrested by Assad thugs aged just 18 is FOUND looking dazed outside hellhole prison where he was caged for four decades

Daily Mail  

A 57-year-old Syrian man who 'vanished' after his arrest by al-Assad thugs as a teenager has been spotted by stunned relatives looking dazed outside a prison after he was freed four decades later. Moammar Ali had the greatest surprise of his life as - after 39 years of searching - he found his older brother Ali, pictured right, outside of …

Inside Assad's torture chambers where prisoners were made to suck their own blood off the floor, rape fellow inmates and executed for looking at guards - as illustrations reveal cruel punishments
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Inside Assad's torture chambers where prisoners were made to suck their own blood off the floor, rape fellow inmates and executed for looking at guards - as illustrations reveal cruel punishments

Daily Mail  

Prisoners held inside Bashar al-Assad's notorious Syrian torture chamber prison were forced to suck their own blood off the floor and rape fellow inmates. It comes as: President Bashar al-Assad flees Syria and is granted asylum in Moscow Islamist HTS rebels and other rebel factions take Damascus and topple regime Syria's Prime Minister is set to meet with HTS leader …

Syrian rebels free prisoners from ‘human slaughterhouses’ after Bashar al-Assad exit
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Syrian rebels free prisoners from ‘human slaughterhouses’ after Bashar al-Assad exit

Hindustan Times  

Armed Syrian rebels, led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, freed hundreds of prisoners detained by exiled President Bashar al-Assad in jails, which the detainees describe as “slaughterhouses”. As the rebels swept across Syria, they broke through jails, where the government officials had fled, to free political prisoners detained by Assad since the beginning of ‘pro-democracy’ protests in 2011. Exiled Omar …

Syria’s White Helmets director says Sednaya Prison was ‘hell’ for detainees
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Syria’s White Helmets director says Sednaya Prison was ‘hell’ for detainees

Al Jazeera  

Raed al-Saleh tells Al Jazeera rescuers found bodies in ovens and executions took place daily at notorious facility. Syrian rescuers are searching through the notorious Sednaya Prison near Damascus to find and free detainees as they uncover abuses that took place during the rule of ousted President Bashar al-Assad. Raed al-Saleh – the director of Syria’s Civil Defence organisation, known …

Families search Syria’s Sednaya Prison for loved ones after al-Assad’s fall
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Families search Syria’s Sednaya Prison for loved ones after al-Assad’s fall

Al Jazeera  

Rescue teams and relatives of disappeared people in Syria are searching for their loved ones at the notorious Sednaya Prison in Damascus after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s government. An intense search was under way at the jail on Monday for “hidden underground cells, reportedly holding detainees”, said the White Helmets rescue group, which dispatched emergency teams to the …

Heartbreaking moment TODDLER walks out of prison cell in Assad's 'human slaughterhouse' as Syrian rebels free inmates from jail where rape and torture is endemic - and 13,000 were executed by the regi
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Heartbreaking moment TODDLER walks out of prison cell in Assad's 'human slaughterhouse' as Syrian rebels free inmates from jail where rape and torture is endemic - and 13,000 were executed by the regi

Daily Mail  

This is the heartbreaking moment a toddler is seen walking out of a Syrian prison cell inside tyrant President Bashar al-Assad's 'human slaughterhouse'. This is the heartbreaking moment a toddler is seen walking out of a Syrian prison cell inside tyrant President Bashar al-Assad's 'human slaughterhouse' Women and children have been freed from despot President Bashar al-Assad's 'human slaughterhouse' prison …

Watchdog says 100s of boys missing from Kurdish Syria prison
3 years, 1 month ago

Watchdog says 100s of boys missing from Kurdish Syria prison

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Hundreds of boys are missing from a Syrian Kurdish prison that held members of the Islamic State group and their families, after the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces fought IS militants for 10 days to retake the facility, an international human rights group said Friday. President Joe Biden said al-Qurayshi had been responsible for the Syria prison assault, as well …

Authorities 'missed opportunities' to stop two teenage brothers from Brighton joining al-Qaeda in Syria
7 years, 8 months ago

Authorities 'missed opportunities' to stop two teenage brothers from Brighton joining al-Qaeda in Syria

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A serious case review published by the Brighton and Hove Local Safeguarding Children Board …

Report documents horrific torture in Syrian prisons
8 years, 7 months ago

Report documents horrific torture in Syrian prisons

LA Times  

One former prisoner described undergoing desperate jailhouse surgery performed with a scavenged razor blade. It felt like a knife excavating my body — Shiyar, former prisoner Researchers said they found the ex-prisoners’ accounts credible, in part because some details were repeated again and again by people who had never met — descriptions, for example, of the “welcome party” – a …

Reports: Dozens Of Bodies Found In Syria; Young Men Apparently Executed
12 years, 2 months ago

Reports: Dozens Of Bodies Found In Syria; Young Men Apparently Executed

NPR  

Reports: Dozens Of Bodies Found In Syria; Young Men Apparently Executed Activists and rebels in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo are reporting today that "the bodies of dozens of young men, all apparently summarily executed" have been found in and around the Quwaiq River, the BBC writes. There is a very graphic video posted on the Facebook page of …

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