A view of dead bodies, who were tortured to death, at Al-Mujtahid Hospital as teams carry out investigation in secret compartments at Sednaya Prison after the fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, Syria on December 10, 2024.
Rape hell in Assad's prisons: Former inmate describes how he saw boy cry for his mother as he was sexually assaulted by Syrian torturers.. and was himself gang-raped by three 'laughing' guards A former inmate in one of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's prisons has revealed how he saw a boy cry for his mother while he was sexually abused by his torturers.
The former prisoner said that memories of his time in the horrific prison system came back to him upon seeing the swathe of prisoners leaving Damascus after Assad fell.
René, one of six million Syrians who fled the country following the brutal civil war in 2012, was imprisoned for being gay and for going to a pro-democracy protests by Assad's secret police.
But I saw myself in the photos and the images of the people in Syria.
