Residents of Saydnaya, a hilltop city north of Damascus known as one of Christianity's most important pilgrimage sites, are demanding that media outlets and official bodies stop calling the notorious military prison on the road to their city "Saydnaya Prison" — a name they say is geographically wrong and has tainted a place of ancient sanctity.
The facility in question is actually called the First Military Prison, a Syrian Ministry of Defence compound located 30 kilometres north of Damascus, on the road leading to Saydnaya, but outside the city's administrative boundaries.
