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Thousands Freed from Syrian Prison
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2025, page 61
Filed under:
Political Prisoners (International).
Location:
Syria.
Hours after former Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad fled rebels who then took control of Damascus on December 8, 2024, prisoners were freed from Sednaya Prison, a lockup known as a “human slaughterhouse” where an estimated 30,000 enemies of the al-Assad regime were killed since the onset of civil war in ...
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