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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Jacob Phillips

Toddler among prisoners freed from Syria's notorious 'human slaughterhouse' jail

Thousands of prisoners have been freed from Syria’s infamous jails as shocking footage emerged of a toddler appearing to be freed from a cell in the country’s “human slaughterhouse” jail.

Just north of Damascus in the Saydnaya military prison women detainees, some with their children, screamed as men broke the locks off their cell doors as rebels overthrew the “barbaric” Assad family’s regime after 50 years of rule in Syria.

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