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Inside Syria's notorious Saydnaya prison

ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent James Longman reports at Saydnaya prison, where Syrians are searching for their lost loved ones.
ABC News - Dec. 10
Syria's celebrations muted by evidence of torture in Assad's notorious prisons

In Syria’s capital Damascus the hope of a country freed from its longtime dictator Bashar al Assad was starting to fade at the city's Saydnaya military prison.
NBC News - Dec. 10
Syrians search the notorious Saydnaya prison seeking loved ones and answers

The first place hundreds rushed to when news broke that the Assad regime had fallen was the military prison in Saydnaya, a place so notorious for its horrors it was long known as “the slaughterhouse.”
NBC News - Dec. 10
U.S. indictment accuses two Syrian officials of torture at notorious prison

Peaceful protesters, including a 26-year-old American woman, were abused at the torture center.
CBS News - Dec. 9
Syrians Search Notorious Prison for Thousands of Missing

The regime’s downfall has given hope to families of Syrians who disappeared in recent decades.
The Wall Street Journal - Dec. 9
What we know about the notorious Saydnaya Prison

Thousands of people have been executed and tortured in the secretive prison since the 1980s.
BBC News - Dec. 9
Videos show 'prisoners being released from cells' in notorious Syrian prison

Videos posted online purported to show rebels freeing dozens of women and men at the notorious Saydnaya prison in Syria.
NBC News - Dec. 9
Reports of people trapped underground at notorious Syrian prison

It is thought thousands of people could still be trapped in hidden parts of the notorious Saydnaya prison.
BBC News - Dec. 9
For Iranian Women, Can a Revolution Take Place at Home?

Inspired by the movement for women’s rights in Iran, Elahe Esmaili returns to her hometown to start her own resistance.
The New York Times - Dec. 3

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