Jeremy Bowen: Assad's torture prison is worst I have seen
Saydnaya prison sits on a forbidding hill about half an hour's drive from the centre of Damascus. In the last few days the entrance has been repainted in the green, white and black of Syria's revolutionary flag. The new colours did not dispel the sinister atmosphere of the place. As I walked through the gates, I thought of the despair that must have gripped the thousands of Syrians who made the same journey. One estimate is that more than 30,000 detainees were killed in Saydnaya in the years since the start of the Syrian war in 2011. That ...
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