Syria bears a heavy legacy of institutional violence, embodied by the security branches and prisons spread across the country ...

A handout satellite image shows the Saydnaya prison in Syria. (AFP/Getty Images) Syrian rebels released hundreds of detainees from a prison dubbed the “human slaughterhouse” after seizing the ...

Many in the Middle East and beyond have expressed their heartbreak following the horrific revelations that 13,000 people have been executed in Syria’s Saydnaya prison. An Amnesty International ...

A Syrian man holds out hope that videos show his son fleeing Saydnaya prison after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The ...

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