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Inside Syria’s Most Fearsome Prison
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The New York Times details the horrors of Sednaya prison under Assad's regime, interviewing former prisoners and officials. The article describes systematic torture, executions, and inhumane conditions.

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Bashar al-Assad
Human Rights Violations
War Crimes
Torture
Prison Abuse
Civil War

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Christina Goldbaum, Charlie Smart, Helmuth Rosales, Anjali Singhvi, Reham Mourshed
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Inside Syria’s Most Fearsome Prison

By Christina Goldbaum, Charlie Smart, Helmuth Rosales, Anjali Singhvi and Reham Mourshed

Aug. 29, 2025

No place in Syria was more feared than Sednaya prison during the Assad family’s decades-long, iron-fisted rule.

Situated on a barren hilltop on the outskirts of Damascus, the capital, Sednaya was at the heart of the Assads’ extensive system of torture prisons and arbitrary arrests used to crush all dissent.

By the end of the nearly 14-year civil war that culminated in December with the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, it had become a haunting symbol of the dictator’s ruthlessness.

Over the years, the regime’s security apparatus swallowed up hundreds of thousands of activists, journalists, students and dissidents from all over Syria — many never to be heard from again.

Most prisoners did not expect to make it out of Sednaya alive. They watched as men detained with them withered away or simply lost the will to live. Tens of thousands of other...

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