Sednaya Prison (Arabic: سجن صيدنايا, romanized: Sijn Ṣaydnāyā), also known as " Human Slaughterhouse " (المسلخ البشري), [a] was a military prison and death camp [1][2] north of Damascus, Syria, operated by Ba'athist Syria. The prison held thousands of prisoners of both genders. [3] .

2024年12月12日 · Sky News sees bags of faeces, nooses, a torture chamber and an alleged "crushing machine" inside the facility, warned about for years by human rights groups as a symbol of the brutality of the Assad regime. When rebels liberated it, …

2024年12月12日 · Perched on a hilltop 30km north of Damascus, Sednaya prison looms as a chilling monument to Syria’s history of repression during the past 50 years. For decades, it symbolised the terror inflicted...

2024年12月11日 · In the wake of the entrance of opposition fighters into Sednaya prison and the beginning of opening the cells in front of the prisoners, information spread about the existence of secret floors and hidden doors, prompting Syria Civil Defence teams to begin digging inside the prison in search of more detainees.

2024年12月9日 · Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militants led by Abu Mohammed al-Golani took control of Syria’s infamous Sednaya prison near Damascus on Sunday after entering the capital and forcing longtime leader...

2024年12月12日 · Omar Alshogre spent time in Sednaya prison in Syria. He gives a real-life look at what life was like there, and what it was like to escape and live as a civilian. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: The fall of...

2019年11月12日 · The report is based on 400 face-to-face interviews with former detainees in Sednaya prison, and it provides information about the changes on the political detention file in Syria and the overall political and social conditions associated with it.

2024年12月10日 · Around 2,000 people emerged on Sunday from Sednaya, a facility used to detain, torture and kill tens of thousands of prisoners during Syria’s 13-year civil war. These prisoners were released after...

2024年12月9日 · According to Amnesty International, up to 20,000 prisoners were held at Sednaya, most of them imprisoned after secret sham trials that lasted no more than a few minutes. Survivors of the prison...

2024年12月10日 · At Sednaya prison, known as Syria’s “human slaughterhouse,” rebels broke down gates and cell doors, freeing detainees who had endured unimaginable suffering. In one video, a rebel reassured prisoners with the words, “He [Assad] has fallen. Don’t be scared.” Among those freed were women and children who had been held in cramped, unsanitary cells.