#syrianprisons — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/iran/61051/ Syrian defector ‘Caesar’ says govt rehabilitating ‘Assadists’ #AssadRegime #Caesar #Detainees #EnforcedDisappearance #PostAssadSyria #Syria #SyrianPrisons

"Prisons have been central to Syrian public consciousness for more than half a century. Some of the most notorious complexes, such as Tadmor (Palmyra) Prison, were constructed by the colonial French Mandate authorities. [..] The Syrian prison network in all its infamy, however, was assembled over two generations of #Assad rule."

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/12/22/syria-the-prison-gates-thrown-open/
https://archive.ph/TSSir

#Syria #AssadDynasty #SyrianPrisons #Saydnaya #StateViolence #StateCrime @syria

The Long Shadow of Assad's Gulag: Syrian Former Detainees in Europe

Lecture by Uğur Ümit Üngör, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam & co-author of "#SyrianGulag: Inside #Assad’s Prison System"

CW: contains images & description of #torture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljV4BUjZ2-A&pp=wgIGCgQQAhgB

#Syria #SyrianUprising #SyrianRevolution #ArabSpring #SyrianWar #PoliticalPrisoners #PoliticalDetainees #AssadDynasty #SyrianPrisons #SyrianRefugees #paramilitaries #books