Prison in Syria
The horror of the Assad regime has a name: Saidnaya
After Assad’s fall, thousands of people in the notorious Saidnaya Prison are looking for relatives and friends – or at least for clues about their fate.
The Syrian aid organization White Helmets has said it has ended its search operation in the notorious Saidnaya prison near Damascus. The White Helmets said on Tuesday that the search for additional prisoners “in possibly undetected secret cells and cellars” had been concluded without results. No underground dungeons were discovered.
After the fall of ruler Bashar al-Assad, numerous people flocked to Saidnaya Prison on Monday to look for relatives who had been imprisoned for years. As journalists from the AFP news agency reported, thousands of people gathered in front of the multi-story detention center north of the capital until the evening.
Prison represents decades of violence in Syria
Saidnaya Prison represents the brutality of the Assad family’s decades-long rule. When he took office in 2000, Bashar al-Assad took over from his late father Hafez al-Assad an apparatus of prisons and detention centers in which dissidents were locked up.
The Islamist group Hajat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) then brought an end to Assad’s rule at the weekend, and the ruler fled to Russia, according to Russian state media. The fighters launched a surprise offensive in northwestern Syria on November 27 and advanced to the capital within a few days. The Islamists announced that “all those unjustly imprisoned” should be released.
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Source: Stern
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