10/12/2024
THE LIBERATION OF SEDNAYA
📌TRIGGER WARNING: Violence, torture, tape
🇸🇾Over 150,000 people have disappeared in Syria since former President Bashar al-Assad launched a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011. The detainees were imprisoned in over 100 detention facilities, including Sednaya.
🏚️ SEDNAYA PRISON is Syria’s most notorious detention centre, often called a “death camp” or “human slaughterhouse,” located 20 kms outside Damascus.
🔴 Most detainees were political prisoners arrested, imprisoned, or executed. They endured psychological and physical torture, including starvation, sleep deprivation, whippings, r**e, electric shocks.
🔴 30,000 people were likely killed at the prison, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
After the abrupt exit of the Assad regime, rescue workers and rebel soldiers have been working to liberate detainees across Syria.
Absence of prison layouts and information on detainees has hindered efforts.
📌WHAT THEY HAVE FOUND SO FAR
🔺A vast complex, 4-5 stories underground.
🔺Three wings, each specialising in a different form of torture.
🔺Narrow cells, a few meters each, with more than a dozen people.
🔺No space to lie down, and no windows.
🔺A toddler was found among the detainees.
🔺Rescuers reportedly found some bodies in ovens, per the White Helmets. (Al Jazeera).
👉NOW: Syria’s Civil Defence group, the ‘White Helmets,’ has concluded its search for more detainees.
👉They have now offered a $3,000 reward for information on hidden prisons across Syria.
🔴REBEL LEADER: Abu Mohammed al-Jolani stated the Syrian officials who oversaw the torture would be held accountable. Their names would be published and repatriation sought for those who fled to other countries.
