The prisons are overpopulated, which leads to increased prison violence and lower quality of life. Contrast that to Norway, home of “the world’s cushiest jail,” Bastoy Prison, where inmates hold keys ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In a rare moment of unity in a country torn apart by over a decade of war, Syrians flocked to Saydnaya ...

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Inside Syria's notorious Sednaya prison, dubbed the "human slaughterhouse", Sky News saw the conditions that people were kept in until the fall of the Assad regime. Sky News' lead world presenter ...

As former prisoners reunite with their families, questions remain about the prison’s hidden sections and the full extent of its brutal history under the Assad regime. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS ...

Syrian rebels have freed prisoners — including toddlers — from a notorious, jam-packed prison dubbed the “human slaughterhouse,” where the Assad regime allegedly used an “iron press ...

Syrian rescuers are searching through the notorious Sednaya Prison near Damascus to find and free detainees as they uncover abuses that took place during the rule of ousted President Bashar al-Assad.

Some things are better off from a distance; the closer you get to them, the scarier they become. One of those things is prison. We love watching documentaries about them, and we dig shows that revolve ...

Throngs of Syrians rushed to the facilities to search for loved ones who had disappeared into the prison system during the 13-year civil war. No prison is more infamous than Sednaya, just north of ...