CNN goes inside Syria’s ‘slaughterhouse’ prison as desperate families look for missing loved ones
As Syrians rejoiced across the country this week, many began the frantic search for missing loved ones who had been forcibly disappeared under Bashar al-Assad’s brutal dictatorship – with crowds descending on the notorious Saydnaya prison that had become synonymous with arbitrary detention,
Inside look at Syria's notorious prison as loved ones search for relatives
Days after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, thousands of people are searching for relatives who may have been imprisoned, tortured or killed. NBC News' Richard Engel got a look inside one of Syria's most notorious prisons as loved ones looked for those they hadn't seen in years.
Thousands walk out of Syrian prisons as families search desperately for the disappeared
Thousands of people imprisoned for years walked out of Syria's prisons after President Bashar al-Assad's overthrow.
Syrians flock to morgues looking for loved ones who perished in Assad's prisons
Mohammad Chaeeb spoke softly into his phone, telling a relative the grim news: He found his brother at the morgue. “I saw him and said my goodbyes,” he said. His gaze lingered on the blackened body of Sami Chaeeb,
Inside Syria's notorious Saydnaya prison
ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent James Longman reports at Saydnaya prison, where Syrians are searching for their lost loved ones.
Thousands scour Syria's most horrific prison but find no sign of their loved ones
For the past two days, all have been looking for signs of loved ones who disappeared years or even decades ago into the secretive, sprawling prison just outside Damascus. But hope gave way to despair Monday.
Despairing Syrians search notorious Sednaya prison for missing relatives
As families desperately scoured the filthy cells of Syria's forbidding Sednaya prison on Monday for any sign of long-detained relatives after its gates were flung open by rebels, hope for finding missing loved ones began to fade.
Syria’s infamous Sednaya prison was a ‘slaughterhouse’, ex-inmates say
No other building in the war-torn country of Syria symbolises the sheer horror of the Assad family regime more, its former inmates say, than the Sednaya prison – so much so that they adopted a special nickname for it: slaughterhouse.
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