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February 8, 2023

Syria: Members of ISIS escape ‘Black Prison’ after earthquake devastates area

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Middle East Facilities Syria

At least twenty prisoners, believed to be jihadi militants, have escaped from a prison in Syria. The escape was enabled by the recent earthquake that damaged the prison, a source at the facility told Agence-France Presse. Known as the “Black Prison” the military police prison was located in the tow…

Source — The Independent

September 5, 2022

Syrie : des experts de l'ONU consternés par la mort d'un jeune australien dans un centre de détention

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Minors Middle East Syria

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May 19, 2022

Syria : Families wait desperately for loved ones' release after prison amnesty

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Middle East Social ties Syria

Dozens of Syrians gathered on the streets of Damascus last night, hoping that their relatives would be among a batch of detainees released under a new amnesty. Families assembled in the “President’s Bridge” area, awaiting the arrival of buses carrying people who have been held for years in Syria’s…

Source — Middle East Eye

February 21, 2022

Syrie : une dizaine de mineurs français dans la prison attaquée par l’EI

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Minors Middle East Syria

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January 24, 2022

Syrie : Des djihadistes s’évadent après l’attaque d’une prison par l’organisation Etat islamique

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Middle East Syria

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January 6, 2022

Syrie : le “piano” de la mort de la prison de Palmyre

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Middle East Death penalty Torture Syria

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September 6, 2021

Syria: young man from eastern Ghouta dies in regime prison, after three years of detention

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Middle East Material conditions Torture Violence Syria

SOHR has documented the death of 47,496 civilians under torture in regime’s prisons since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, all documented by names: 47,094 men and young men, 339 children under the age of eighteen, and 64 women over the age of eighteen. Reliable sources have informed the Syr…

Source — Syriahr

August 5, 2021

Syria: US imposes sanctions on Syrian prisons

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Middle East Torture Violence Syria

The Treasury Department also put sanctions on Syrian armed group Ahrar al-Sharqiya, which operates in northern Syria, for abuses against civilians, as well as on two of the group’s leaders, it said in a statement. “Today’s designations promote accountability for abuses commiitted against the Syrian…

Source — Times of India

July 1, 2021

Syrie : les prisonniers du régime, un business juteux pour les escrocs, face à des familles désespérées

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Middle East Health Death penalty Torture Violence Syria

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March 1, 2021

Syria: the greater jail, the politics of prison

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Culture Middle East Facilities Syria

The prison is a fundamental political institution, the function of which is to de-politicize the population; indeed to politicide them. The concept of politicide was introduced in political science in the 1980s to conceptualize murdering people en masse for their political affiliations, rather than…

Source — AlJumhuriya

May 4, 2020

Syria: prisoner from eastern Ghouta dies under torture in Sednaya prison

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Middle East Torture Syria

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of a civilian from Saqba city in eastern Ghouta, seven years after being arrested at a security checkpoint in Damascus. The victim died under torture in Sednaya prison (known as the Slaughterhouse). With the death of more civilians, the number…

Source — Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

January 15, 2020

Syria: "On dort l'un sur l'autre" : plongée au cœur d'une prison de jihadistes au Kurdistan syrien (vidéo)

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Middle East Overcrowding Syria

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November 4, 2019

Jihadistes détenus en Syrie : "Au lieu d'organiser une justice, on met ce problème dans un étouffoir"

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Middle East Syria

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October 29, 2019

Syria: bursting at the seams: inside an IS prison

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Middle East Syria

Hasakeh province (Syria) (AFP) - Behind the steel door, the cell is as packed as their eyes are empty – haggard, scrawny prisoners in orange jumpsuits lying head-to-toe cover every inch of floor space.

Source — Le Monde

October 29, 2019

Syria: cómo es la prisión kurda donde están encerrados miles de terroristas del Estado Islámico

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Middle East Discipline Material conditions Protest Religion Syria

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October 8, 2019

Syria: boys, men held in inhumane conditions

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Middle East Torture Syria

A Kurdish-led armed group backed by the United States-led coalition against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) is detaining thousands of Syrian and foreign men and boys in severely overcrowded informal detention centers in northeast Syria, Human Rights Watch said today.

Source — Human Rights Watch

June 27, 2019

Syria: woman recalls regime torture, condition of women in prisons

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Women Middle East Material conditions Torture Syria

Thousands of women across Syria have been subjected to torture under the custody of the Syrian regime, while about 128,000 civilians remain in detention.

Source — Daily Sabah

June 5, 2019

Syria: "Palmyre", chasser les fantômes

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Middle East Syria

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May 26, 2019

Syria: sortie de l'enfer des prisons syriennes, une mère aspire à une "nouvelle vie"

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Middle East Syria

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October 18, 2018

Syria: les rescapés de l'enfer [audio & video]

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Middle East Syria

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Source — France Inter

January 10, 2018

En Syrie, dans les geôles de Daech

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Topic Middle East Syria

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Source — La Croix

July 10, 2017

Syria : prison de Hama, les détenus prennent le contrôle

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Middle East Syria

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Source — Lundimatin

May 15, 2017

Syrian crematory is hiding mass killings of prisoners, U.S. says

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Middle East Death penalty Syria

The United States accused the Syrian government on Monday of using a crematory to hide mass murders at a prison where thousands are believed to have been summarily executed in the nation’s civil war.

Source — The New York Times

February 7, 2017

Up to 13,000 secretly hanged in Syrian jail, says Amnesty

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Middle East Syria

Thousands of other opponents of Assad died from torture and starvation at Saydnaya prison, witness reports suggest. As many as 13,000 opponents of Bashar al-Assad were secretly hanged in one of Syria’s most infamous prisons in the first five years of the country’s civil war as part of an exterminat…

Source — The Guardian