Rumors of celebration over the fall of Damascus's regime seem to be overshadowed by the horrors of Sednaya Prison, known as a slaughterhouse near the capital. The prison's walls echo decades of torture and the agonized cries of those brutally murdered. Countless innocent people were executed here by Assad's forces.
The Guardian captured rare footage inside the prison, revealing a vast underground structure as deep as a five-story building. Once a detention center for Assad’s last political prisoners, it reportedly held over 1,500 Syrian citizens. After rebels seized the facility and opened its doors, families desperately searched for their loved ones. Many detainees died from starvation and suffocation in these hidden chambers, nicknamed the “Red Wine” prison.
Sednaya's interior housed torture cells spread across three wings. Prisoners, isolated from the outside world, were crammed into cells so small they couldn't even lie down. Walls were marked with haunting pleas: “Take me away.” Blankets and scraps of fabric served as crude maps of escape attempts.
Amnesty International reports that between 2011 and 2015, 13,000 people were executed here. This notorious prison is likened to a black hole, where dissenters were tortured into silence. The UN has documented over 100 prisons in Syria, many secret, where detainees were subjected to unimaginable cruelty.
From 2011 to 2024, over 150,000 Syrians were imprisoned, with many vanishing without a trace. Even during Hafez al-Assad’s regime, arrests and torture were rampant, leaving untold numbers of Syrians still trapped in detention under Bashar al-Assad's rule.
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