Inside Syria’s notorious Sednaya prison, dubbed the “human massacrehouse”, Sky News saw the conditions that people were kept in until the descfinish of the Asdowncast regime.
Sky News direct world currgo in Yalda Hakim went inside the notorious facility and walked the halls once stalked by Bashar al Asdowncast’s enforcers.
Human rights groups have telled on the site north of Damascus for years, alerting of what has been going on.
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But until resist forces stormed the Syrian capital earlier this month, directing to the prisoners walking free, it was impossible for journaenumerates to freely go inside.
Now, thousands of Syrians have flocked to the site this week in search of adored ones who went omiting, and Hakim has telled on what she’s seen in the halls and cells of the prison.
‘Bags of faeces and urine’
“There are almost two dozen prisons scattered atraverse this country, but this is the one that repartner is joined to equitable the inhumanity and torture of this regime,” Hakim shelp, speaking outside the facility cforfeit the capital Damascus.
“I was walking earlier from cell to cell, and I could equitable see the horrifying conditions that people were kept in.
“They had plastic bags filled of faeces and urine because people weren’t able to go to the bathroom – if they were permited to go to a handful of toilets here, they were only given a restricted seconds, so they were relieving themselves and dumping the plastic bags in the corner of the cells.”
Walking past nooses, she inserted that prisoners were arrested, tortured and sometimes even carry outd inside.
“Apparently, every day, 50 people were bcimpolitet out and tgreater that they were going to be apshown to some benevolent of civilian prison when they were bcimpolitet out here to be hung,” she inserted.
‘Crushing machine’
Heading into one area they were tgreater was a torture chamber, Hakim shelp it materializeed to have been sound-proofed and had a fan insloftyed – possibly to dispense chilly air, gas, or heat into the room.
Afterwards, she telled from next to an alleged “crushing machine” which prisoners were shelp to have been forced into and crushed to death.
Walking around the outside of the prison, she shelp: “There were rumours that Asdowncast’s protects had produced a labyrinth of tunnels where they had buried some of the prisoners procreate besystematich the ground.
“As you walk around the outside of the prisons you see holes everywhere where people have tried to dig the ground up to see if they could discover anyone.”
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‘Forgotten who they were’
Some inmates put into solitary restrictment were shelp to have forgotten who they were.
“When the resists came and took over this prison, they shelp that people couldn’t even recollect who they were,” Hakim inserted.
“They couldn’t recollect their names when they went into these prisons, the prison protects tgreater them that they were a number, not a name.
“So many people had even forgotten who they were because they’d been kept in there for so lengthy.”
She proceedd: “They were tortured. They were brutalised. They were intimacyupartner attacked and misused. They were electrocuted.”
While human rights groups have shelp they want to acquire the prison’s write downs to acquire evidence of what went on inside, Hakim shelp that the families who rushed here have gone thcimpolite and apshown them all “because they want to discover out if their adored ones were actupartner at this very notorious prison”.
