r/worldnewsvideo • u/ControlCAD • 17d ago

Syrian rebels free prisoners from Assad’s notorious Red Prison underground cells in Sednaya Prison

Sednaya prison, Syria’s “human slaughterhouse” fell into the hands of the rebels on Saturday as Bashar al-Assad's rule came to an end.

Fighters freed hundreds of inmates, including women and young children. However subterranean cells were harder to access and break open. Footage from the prison showed rebels breaking doors open and telling inmates they were free.

Thousands were seen leaving the prison, with people screaming in the streets. Many had been in the prison for several years.

Syria’s Sednaya prison was known as a “human slaughterhouse” by Syrians and human rights organisations.

In a 2017 report, Amnesty International concluded that “the Syrian authorities’ violations at Saydnaya amount to crimes against humanity”. “Murder, torture, enforced disappearance and extermination carried out at Saydnaya since 2011 have been perpetrated as part of an attack against the civilian population that has been widespread, as well as systematic, and carried out in furtherance of state policy,” the human rights group said.

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u/Y-Bob 17d ago

I hope he found his brother.

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u/kociorro 17d ago

I was waiting for this in the video....

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u/deohvii 17d ago

Lost an uncle in one of these, he made a joke 40 years ago. The fucked up part is that he might still be alive and just got out.

I will take the opportunity to leave the wikipedia page of this prison which is also known as "The Human Slaughter House"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sednaya_Prison

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u/Coastalfoxes 17d ago

I hope you find your uncle, or failing that, that your family at least finds out what happened to him. I can't even imagine what your family and the families of all these prisoners have suffered. I know Syria faces many challenges in the days and years ahead, but I am glad that at least we get to celebrate the release of so many tortured souls from that hellhole of a prison.

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u/eastbayweird 16d ago

"The former inmate also stated that in the first prison he was at, prisoners were also forced into cannibalism, but that prison was "heaven" compared to Sednaya Prison"

God damn...

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u/UnbannableGuy___ 17d ago

Bbb-bb-but that's cia propaganda

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u/UnbannableGuy___ 17d ago

Does anybody care to explain, why I got downvoted here?

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u/Usernameoverloaded 17d ago

Probably because people are clued up enough to know that Assad was torturing and executing his enemies, but are not so naive as to believe the CIA is a paragon of virtue and truth with their own history of black ops war crimes.

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u/iMakestuffz 16d ago

Your patience knows no bounds.

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u/UnbannableGuy___ 16d ago

Some iranian bots do deny his crimes by saying that it's the same west who accuses them . But okay

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

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u/UnbannableGuy___ 16d ago

You're daft actually if you couldn't get what I meant

A lot of people outright deny all the assad crimes by saying we don't trust the west when they spread misinformation for israel but we still believe the same people when they expose assad. My comment was satire

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u/Usernameoverloaded 16d ago

Why should people trust the US when the ‘War on Terror’ resulted in 4.5 million deaths?

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u/KavensWorld 17d ago

I remember 2009 on liveleak kids playing dodge the sniper... At that point the west was still eyes wide shut

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u/EfendiAdam-iki 17d ago

I hope Syria won't let anymore tyrants and their regimes.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

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u/Destr2000 17d ago

Syrian opposition factions are not ISIS, they even fought ISIS in many battlefronts.

Just say you don't know what is happening there.

I will refer you to this post

What’s happening in Syria? Why? And who’s fighting who? We’ll answer these questions in this post and pin it as a response to the frequently asked questions we receive.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

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u/Destr2000 17d ago

this is how Christians in Syria are celebrating the fall of this filthy regime

Show me the alleged torturing of Christians "They captured"

Again, If you know nothing about the matters in Syria, keep your opinions to yourself because you will look stupid

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u/Shitmybad 17d ago

No there isn't, what you are seeing is Russian misinformation to try and muddy the waters.

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u/speakhyroglyphically 17d ago

This is the justification stage. Seen this kind of 'news' after Iraq 2 and Libya

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u/mihr-mihro 17d ago

members of ISIS being released in to the country great. Head choppers, rapists and enslavers will do what they do best, with the cheers from the westerners.

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u/iMakestuffz 16d ago

I wish for you that you would be buried in the pile of shoes and clothes of all the dead people from that prison that I saw piled up in a dirty rotten room.

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