Dec. 9 2024, Printed 7:30 p.m. ET
Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian torture chamber jail is stuffed with horror tales together with prisoners subjected to inhumane remedy earlier than being killed.
Sednaya Jail, nicknamed the “Human Slaughterhouse”, is the spot the place inmates had been ordered to do terrifying and sick duties whereas locked up, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
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Survivors of the nightmare jail have revealed all they went via throughout their time behind bars, a spot that was “rigorously designed to humiliate, degrade, sicken, starve and in the end kill these trapped inside”.
Many prisoners have shared stunning tales together with being raped whereas at Sednaya, whereas some had been even compelled to rape fellow inmates.
Guards would additionally torture and beat inmates as a type of punishment and degradation, which led some inmates to endure life-long injury, incapacity, and in some circumstances, demise.
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In response to a 2017 Amnesty report, the demented setting had cell flooring lined with the blood and pus from injured prisoners, and our bodies of the useless had been collected by the guards every morning.
Workers on the jail additionally disadvantaged inmates of meals, water, medication, and medical care. The instances meals was delivered it was thrown on the ground the place it was blended with physique fluids which needed to be ingested.
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Former prisoners have revealed mass hangings on the jail had been additionally carried out a few times every week, in the course of the evening. Inmates had been made to consider they had been being transferred to a different jail, and as a substitute had been beated after which hanged.
A former choose who witnessed the hangings within the Amnesty report recalled: “They stored them [hanging] there for 10 to fifteen minutes. Some did not die as a result of they’re gentle. For the younger ones, their weight would not kill them.”
Prisoners within the constructing would additionally hear the brutal show.
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“Hamid”, a former army officer arrested in 2011, mentioned: “If you happen to put your ears on the ground, you might hear the sound of a sort of gurgling. This may final round 10 minutes… We had been sleeping on high of the sound of individuals choking to demise. This was regular for me then.”
Lynn Maalouf, Deputy Director for Analysis at Amnesty Worldwide’s regional workplace in Beirut, on the time mentioned: “The horrors depicted on this report reveal a hidden, monstrous marketing campaign, licensed on the highest ranges of the Syrian authorities, geared toward crushing any type of dissent throughout the Syrian inhabitants.
“We demand that the Syrian authorities instantly stop extrajudicial executions, torture and inhuman remedy at Sednaya Jail and in all different authorities prisons throughout Syria. Russia and Iran, the federal government’s closest allies, should press for an finish to those murderous detention insurance policies.”
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As Syria’s rebels headed in direction of the capital metropolis final week, they liberated inmates from each jail they discovered, claiming many of the inhabitants had been political prisoners of the brutal Assad regime.
This comes as President Assad’s luxurious underground community, that includes tunnels, was found throughout raids after the disgraced politician fled from the nation following a 13-year civil battle and a long time of his household’s autocratic rule.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have fled Assad’s brutal and murderous regime because the civil battle started in 2011. Nearly all of them have ended up at refugee camps in Turkey and Jordan.
Others have since settled in Europe, with a majority in Germany.
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Assad is to have gone to Moscow in a aircraft on Sunday as Vladimir Putin provided him refuge. It was reported the aircraft could have crashed or was shot down — this has since been rejected by Russian International Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
In the meantime, President Joe Biden praised Assad’s defeat, calling it a “second of historic alternative”.
“In the end, the Assad regime has fallen,” Biden mentioned on the White Home.