Families of those imprisoned by Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime desperately searched the filthy cells of Syria’s most notorious prison for any signs of their loved ones as the country comes to terms with the toppling of his rule.
In the Sednaya prison, referred to by rights groups as a “human slaughterhouse”, thousands of people are believed to have been detained, tortured or executed during Syria’s civil war, which began in 2011. Sitting just north of Damascus, it became the focus for hundreds of families demanding answers about what happened to their relatives.
