Freed Sednaya Prison Inmates in Syria Tell Tales of Assad Horror

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Shocking Accounts of Assad Brutality Tumble out from Sednaya

By Raisina Correspondent

New Delhi, December 9: “I was arrested when I was 19 years old and single. Now, I am 32 years old, and a mother for many kids that I don’t know who their fathers are,” a freed Sednaya Prison inmate has been quoted as saying while sharing details of brutalities which were meted out to the prisoners.

The people are thronging to Damascus from neighbouring countries to check on their relatives who had been jailed by Bassar al-Assad as he sought to crush rebellion against his rule. Reports said that more than 20,000 political prisoners had been kept in the ‘Red Building’ of Sednaya Prison in Damascus.

“Rageed Al Tatery, a colonel in Assad army, had been jailed since 1982 because he had refused to bomb Hama city. He is free now after 42 years in prison,” said Assad Sam Hanna, a Syrian American, who gave details of the prisoners who had been freed from the Sednaya Prison.

Reports said that the people are braving the harsh winter in Damascus to stand outside the prison complex to find out details of their relatives. Reports also said that the prison complex had three levels of underground cells, each packed with at least 10 prisoners.

Since the outbreak of the rebellion against the Assad regime, thousands of political prisoners, journalists, human rights activists had been jailed in the Sednaya Prison. Assad’s key ally and the security head Major General AlI Mahmoud, who had been the chief of staff for Maher Al Assad, died by suicide in his office before the rebels stormed his 4th division headquarters.

He was the chief lieutenant of Assad in suppressing the civil protests against the erstwhile ruler of Syria. Russia has granted asylum to Assad on “humanitarian grounds”.

Sharing a video footage of the CCTV monitoring in the prison complex, Hanna appealed the international community for support to find the prisoners stuck in the jail complex. “I urge the international community to intervene to help in Sednaya. A rescue team to start working on getting people out, and the journalists to go there with their fancy cameras, the ICC and HRW to go there to document it. People can be seen on cameras, but not to be found,” said Hanna on X.

Canada and Netherlands last year had moved application before the International Court of Justice to try Assad for crimes against humanity. A video of a political prisoner released after 30 years from the prison complex showed him first going to visit his kids to find them all dead.

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