“The White Helmets has deployed 5 specialised emergency teams to Sednaya Prison to investigate hidden underground cells, reportedly holding detainees according to survivors,” wrote The White ...

Syrians on Monday celebrated the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, as thousands of detainees were freed from his notorious jails while families and rescuers searched for those still missing.

While Assad was in Moscow having fled the country, one facility known as the “human slaughterhouse” was being searched for signs of secret underground cells. Men in one video verified by NBC News ...

A rescue group called the White Helmets is investigating reports that prisoners are being held in underground cells in Sednaya prison, which has been called a “human slaughterhouse” by Amnesty ...

The prison had eight solitary cells, each measuring four-and-a-half ... year they found remains of the prison structure still underground. But they couldn’t figure out the scribbles on ...

Fifty-five-year-old Gulbahar Jalilova spent one year, three months and ten days in an underground prison cell crowded with about forty other women. Gulbahar Jalilova spent over a year in an ...

Describing the conditions in the underground prison as harsh, KAN said detainees there are shackled and confined to their cells for 23 hours a day. “They are allowed only one brief opportunity ...