Mass Hangings, Torture That Destroyed Hope: Syria’s ‘Human Slaughterhouse’
New Delhi: As a 13-year-old rebellion overthrew the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, the rebels released prisoners held up for years in government prisons near Damascus, Hama and Aleppo. Among these prisons, the most notorious is Saydnaya, often referred to as a “human slaughterhouse”. According to a 2021 report by the UK-based Syrian Observatory for…