One inmate quoted an 800-year-old poet writing, "My country, even if it oppresses me, is dear. My people, even if ...

The video has not been independently verified. Amnesty International called Sednaya Prison a “human slaughterhouse” and accused Assad’s government of systematic torture and of secretly ...

(AFP/Getty Images) Syrian rebels released hundreds of detainees from a prison dubbed the “human slaughterhouse” after seizing the facility on their march to the capital. As many as 13,000 ...

The notorious prison near Damascus - nicknamed the 'Human Slaughterhouse' - is synonymous with heinous torture, executions and human rights abuses carried out by the Assad regime, which was ...

Referred to as the "Death Factory" or the "Human Slaughterhouse," Sednaya became a site of unimaginable suffering. Around 100,000 individuals, according to reports, have disappeared into Assad'a ...

An curved arrow pointing right. After more than a decade of war in Syria, hundreds of inmates in one of the country's most notorious prisons are being reunited with their families. More from News ...

Under Assad’s rule, Sednaya prison – known locally as “the human slaughterhouse” – was the site of extrajudicial executions, torture and forced disappearances. The Druze community carry ...

Omar Alshogre watches in awe as political detainees at one of Syria's most notorious prisons are released from an institution that was made to torture and kill anyone accused of speaking out against ...

notoriously 'human slaughterhouse'...There are hundreds of people who have been released. [Anchor] The collapse of the Syrian al-Assad regime is revealing the horrors of the iron fist rule one by one.

The little boy stands by the unlocked cell doors looking confused as rebel soldiers shout 'Allahu Akbar' - meaning 'God is greatest' - as they free hundreds of inmates. The military prison near ...