Syrian prisons

Mazen al-Hamada became a symbol of Syria's suffering
Syrian prisons
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Mazen al-Hamada: a symbol of Syria's suffering under Assad

The Damascus Dossier’s release revives scrutiny of the killing of Mazen al-Hamada, who spent years exposing the Assad regime's torture of detainees

The New Arab Staff
05 December, 2025
The report exposed several facilities where Syrians were systematically killed by the Assad regime [Getty]
Syria
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Damascus Dossier outrages Syria with details of prison killings

The New Arab Staff
05 December, 2025
Syria prison [Getty]
Syrian prisons
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Assad-era subterranean torture dungeon found in Syria's Homs

The New Arab Staff
21 October, 2025
Saydnaya prison in Damascus, Syria, where thousands were killed under torture
Post-Assad Syria
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Syria Prisons Museum digital torture archive opens in Damascus

The New Arab Staff
15 September, 2025
Foster home in northwest Syria
Post-Assad Syria
Society
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Syria's stolen children: Families demand justice post-Assad

Hadia Al Mansour

Hadia Al Mansour

02 September, 2025
Families of those detained by forces of the ousted Baath regime gather at the March 18th Square to learn the fate of their relatives, of whom they have not heard for years in Daraa, Syria on March 16, 2025. (Photo by Bakr Al Kasem/Anadolu via Getty)
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Families of Syria's disappeared call on govt to continue search

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 March, 2025
A Syrian woman inspects the prison of Saydnaya, north of Damascus on December 16, 2024. Islamist-led rebels took Damascus in a lightning offensive on December 8, ousting president Bashar al-Assad and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 100,000 people died in Syria's jails and detention centres from 2011. (Photo by Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP) (Photo by SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Society
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Justice for Syria's rape victims is vital if Syria is to recover

The New Arab Staff

Shahira Salloum

07 February, 2025
A community group painted over the prison cells in Assad’s security dungeons [Getty]
Bashar al Assad
MENA
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Outrage as Syrian community group paints over Assad regime cells

The New Arab Staff
14 January, 2025
Syria
Post-Assad Syria
Perspectives

From Pakistan to Syria: The purgatory of enforced disappearances

Dr Asim Qureshi

Asim Qureshi

08 January, 2025
Bashar Al-Assad ordered to detain members of the Hamas group [Getty]
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Dozens of Hamas members executed in Assad's Syria prisons

The New Arab Staff
07 January, 2025
Families of Lebanese prisoners held in Syria
Post-Assad Syria
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Assad's fall revives hope for Lebanon's forgotten prisoners

Houshig Kaymakamian
16 December, 2024
Saydnaya
Post-Assad Syria
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Horror mingles with hope after Syria's carceral state collapses

Shelly Kittleson
15 December, 2024
Crowd of men standing around a pit with some in the pit searching and digging
Occupied West Bank
MENA
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Palestinians freed from Syrian regime jails after decades

Jihad Barakat
11 December, 2024
The families of missing people searching Sednaya Prison after hearing rumours of hidden cells that might have more prisoners inside them. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's regime fell in December 2024. Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty
Saydnaya Prison
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Syria: 'Saydnaya jailer' captured, reveals more secret prisons

The New Arab Staff
11 December, 2024
Travelers walk with their luggage to the departures hall of the Al-Masnaa eastern Lebanese border crossing with Syria on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Hassan JARRAH / AFP) (Photo by HASSAN JARRAH/AFP via Getty Images)
Lebanon
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Lebanese released from Assad jail after 33 years

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 December, 2024
Saydnaya Prison [Getty]
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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What is Syria's Saydnaya prison and why is it notorious?

The New Arab Staff
09 December, 2024
Rescue efforts Saydnaya [Getty]
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Calls for help to save Syrians trapped in Saydnaya prison

The New Arab Staff
09 December, 2024
A Syrian anti government fighter carries a shoulder-held surface-to-air missile launcher in the captured central-west city of Hama on December 6, 2024. (Photo by MUHAMMAD HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)
Lebanon
MENA
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Lebanese man 'freed' from Syria prison after 38 years

The New Arab Staff
06 December, 2024
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United States
World
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US charges former Syria prison chief with immigration fraud

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 August, 2024
Syria prison [Getty]
Syria
World
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Syrian prison official with abuse allegations arrested in US

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
18 July, 2024
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Ramadan
Perspectives

Ramadan: Rethinking zakat for Muslim political prisoners

Dr Asim Qureshi

Asim Qureshi

31 March, 2023