CNN Reports Shocking Facts About People Released From Syria's Sadnaya Prison
31- 11.12.2024, 3:02
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Shivering, not speaking, and not knowing who they are.
Some of the prisoners in Syria's Sadnaya prison, where they were held and tortured, have forgotten their names. This is reported by CNN with reference to the representative of the Syrian Civil Guard.
According to Farouk Habib, who is the deputy director general of the White Helmets volunteer organisation, there is a woman among those released who was detained when she was 19 years old. She was raped repeatedly while in prison and gave birth to three children. The children never left the prison walls.
Other people ‘lost their minds’ or forgot who they were while imprisoned. Some did not know their names or where they were from, the TV station added.
CNN notes that despite the hope that a large number of missing people would be found in the prison, only a few thousand people were being held there when the Assad regime fell. The remaining prisoners ‘were either executed, buried in mass graves or transferred to other detention centres.’
The organisation is now looking for other secret prisons around the country and offering financial rewards for information. According to Habib, they have already received thousands of messages.
The TV channel adds that at least 200,000 Syrians are reported missing, most of them kidnapped or detained by the Assad regime.
The Mail online adds that the released Syrian prisoners are shivering, not able to speak and have significant memory problems. The journalists reported on Jordanian national Osama Bashir al-Batain, who was released from prison this week after 38 years in prison. The man was arrested in 1986 when he was 18 years old, at which time his family reported him missing.
The same year Osama was detained, Syrian soldiers arrested another 18-year-old university student, Ali Hassan al-Ali, who was also behind bars until this week. His family had not seen or heard from him for nearly 40 years, so they did not recognise the man straight away.
The journalists added that there are many foreigners in detention, including Suheil Hamawi from Lebanon, who returned to his country after 33 years of imprisonment on December 9.
Sednaya Prison, also known as the ‘human slaughterhouse,’ is a military prison near Damascus in Syria that was controlled by the regime of Bashar al-Assad, and before that by his father Hafez al-Assad. The prison was used to hold thousands of prisoners, both common civilians and anti-government rebels, regime opponents and political captives.
Earlier it was reported that all prisoners have been released from Sednaya military prison north of Damascus, where the Assad family dictatorial regime held and tortured people for decades.
Sednaya prison held about 150,000 people in total. It was notorious among Syrians for the brutality of the guards and the torture of prisoners, and was called ‘the slaughterhouse’.
After rebels succeeded in overthrowing the regime of Bashar al-Assad and taking control of Damascus, Syria's capital, the rebels began releasing prisoners from some of the country's largest prisons.
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