Asaad Shlash, Hassan Abd Alrahman, Faraj Birkdar and Haitham Alkatreb served long jail terms in the 1990s. Students and ...

For decades, what went on behind the walls of the Sednaya military prison in Syria was largely hidden from the world. But after Bashar al-Assad lost power in 2024, droves of inmates were released.

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.

ALBAWABA - The Syrian Ministry of Interior reported that security forces arrested former Brigadier General Salem Daghestani, most notably as head of the investigations department at Saydnaya Prison.

The military prison Sednaya managed by the Syrian government was used for holding thousands of prisoners, including civic activists and representatives of the armed opposition DUBAI, December 8.

The injured man ended up surviving. It was the moment Moaz realised he could help people during his time in Sednaya Prison, known as the "human slaughterhouse" for the tens of thousands of inmates ...