As the Assad regime in Syria crumbled over the weekend, the conquering rebels threw open the gates to the prisons the place the federal government had detained tens of hundreds of its individuals, torturing and killing them on an industrial scale.
Throngs of Syrians rushed to the services to seek for family members who had disappeared into the jail system in the course of the 13-year civil conflict. No jail is extra notorious than Sednaya, simply north of the capital, Damascus.
Even earlier than the civil conflict, Sednaya was recognized for widespread torture and abuse. But in the course of the battle, it grew to become a website of depravity and violence, used to commit among the worst atrocities of Bashar al-Assad’s rule when he was president.
Human rights teams say tens of hundreds of individuals had been detained in Sednaya. They had been tortured, crushed and disadvantaged of meals, water, medication and fundamental sanitation. Thousands had been executed in mass hangings after sham trials. One group estimated that greater than 30,000 detainees had been killed there.
In most circumstances, the households of prisoners got no details about their destiny.
