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‘The ‘press’ that crushes dead bodies, traces of blood, bundles of dead bodies and thousands of people living in hellish conditions in the underground jail…’, Such was the hell of former Syrian President Bashar-al-Assad. Assad has now fled Syria, but the scars of the torture and death of millions of people are still present in Syrian prisons. Rebels captured Syria’s capital Damascus on Sunday. Before this, Assad had fled the country. After capturing Damascus, the rebels started evacuating people who had been tortured in the prisons here for years. During this time, people got goosebumps after seeing the conditions of the jails. The worst conditions were in Syria’s dreadful Sidnaya military prison, where the ‘press that crushes dead bodies’ is also present.
The terrifying scene of Syria’s Sidnaya prison
Videos of Sidnaya Jail are being played on many local channels, fear is clearly visible on the faces of people after seeing the scene here. Looking at the conditions of this jail, it seems that hell must be something like this. The rebels told that most of the people were hanged in this jail. Here rebels and prisoners of war were brought and subjected to unbearable torture. Before being hanged, people were kept in underground cells. Here, people were neither given clean water nor decent food. Even after hanging, Asad’s brutality did not diminish. He used to put the dead bodies in a machine, where they were crushed.
The horrifying truth of the press that crushes dead bodies
‘People got goosebumps after seeing the ‘press’ that crushed the dead body. People looked horrified after seeing this weapon of Assad’s hell world. This terrifying ‘iron press’ was used to crush the victims after hanging them. Some people also say that even living people were put in this press. Imagine, whenever we accidentally touch the press while ironing clothes, how much pain it causes. Now try to feel the pain that occurs when a person is placed between two presses. How much agony this person must have experienced before dying.
The prisoners are still trapped in the basement!
There are hundreds of hidden rooms inside Sidnaya Jail, where thousands of people were trapped. Members of the White Helmets, a Syrian civil defense group, are trying to locate prisoners trapped in the basements inside the prison. Let us tell you that after the fall of Assad’s regime, thousands of freed prisoners returned to the streets of Damascus over the weekend, but it is being told that many are still fighting for their lives inside the basements. Thousands of prisoners have been freed from the city’s deadly Sidnaya prison in one of the biggest rebel operations since the overthrow of the Assad government.
Syria’s dreadful Sidnaya military prison
The dark truth of Assad’s ‘Red Ward’
In the last few decades in Syria, prison had become synonymous with Assad’s tyrannical regime. The rebel army soldiers are now trying to take out the prisoners by breaking the walls and floors of the jails. During this time, the rebels found a room in which dozens of red rope noose, used for mass hanging, were also found. Rebels say there are electronic underground doors behind many of the walls, creating dark bunkers filled with prisoners. The people rescued from here told that the hidden bunkers were called ‘Red Ward’.
Rebels busy breaking electronic doors
According to the Damascus Countryside Governorate, they are also struggling to break down several electronic doors that have secret passcodes. The White Helmets, a Syrian civil defense group, are now investigating the claims of survivors and using multiple machines to locate the bunkers. Human rights groups believe that these hidden rooms were used before prisoners were taken to be executed. Prison brutality has always been a topic of discussion for human rights groups, but more allegations have emerged since the prisoners were released on Sunday.
Assad killed millions of people
According to one report, Assad imprisoned and killed approximately 110,000 opponents. When the Assad government was overthrown, thousands of people rushed outside the prisons to get news of their loved ones. Many people were disappointed that thousands of ‘missing’ people have still not been found. However, some people were released, among them Suhail al-Hamawi, who tasted freedom after 33 years. A 61-year-old man embraces his grandchildren after being released from prison on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus.
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