Inside a Syrian Prison: A Producer’s Unexpected Personal Discovery | WSJ

Bashar al-Assad’s downfall in Syria has given families of Syrian detainees hope that they escaped the regime’s prisons. Fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the rebel group that led the offensive to push Assad out of power, say they are now securing these prisons and making sure that no evidence is stolen or destroyed.

WSJ’s Ben C. Solomon visited a former Military Intelligence Branch prison in Damascus to follow a desperate search for clues, and in the process makes a grim discovery.

Chapters:
0:00 Searching a prison cell in Damascus
3:00 HTS securing the prisons
5:15 Messages in prison cells

#Syria #Assad #WSJ

[jacobhc]

Its crazy. You can even see the happiness on the mans face, when he finds a clue about his relatives, even tho it means that his relatives has been through this terrible nightmare of a place - but the tiny connection, a flick of hope, to maybe find his relatives. Hopefully alive, but probably dead.

[KimKirkham-ef]

It’s unbelievable what the Syrian people went through. It’s sickening how so many governments can inflict so many human atrocities . It makes me so sad that so many people suffer

[Abdul_hamid]

Heartbreaking journey, I'm crying.

[Kelfuma]

It is sickening that this happened. Had we been born under different circumstances, to different people, we could have been the ones to end up in that prison and grave.

[JonathanXLindqviust]

I never understood why closure was so important before my K9 in the military got murdered. No body. No grave. Nearly a decade later I was attending a fellow vet's wedding, I had landed at the airport-base where we had served. I realized this was the place me and my K9 had ran around during training, and it hit me it was the closest I had come to a gravesite of him. I broke down, bawling my eyes out, crying, alone, in an blue-tinted terminal.
I still miss you Marcco. Until the day I no longer am able.

[garbaneli]

Russia's friendship with Assad is unsurprising...

[annettewalter]

Very brave lady going back. I hope she has a long peaceful life

[james]

The ICC should give them a generator and a few dozen scanners to document these papers that may contain the only clues of someones Life.

[SiemonMorgan-wigy]

Assad will pay for what he did, if not in this life but in the afterlife!!!!

[AndreaDoesYoga]

Heartbreaking journey, thanks for shedding light 💔

[kinanisam]

It is depressing that the world watched their suffering in silence and some even backed the criminal dictator on his war against his own people, while others practiced all kinds of racism against the people who ran from these prisons.

What is shown here is only 1% of what really happened in these deadly prisons, to pose tiny examples, there were organs of these innocent prisoners being sold and torture to the point right before death which is deemed as a prize only the very few of the innocent people inside are worthy of. These brutal torture sessions were broadcasted live on the dark web and sold for big numbers, and the individuals murdered were being put inside bags (that are now being found daily) and thrown in holes underground next to thousands of others.

Even though some could get out of these death chambers after Assad ran, the huge majority is still stuck in prisons underground nobody knows how to get into, meanwhile the world is worried about the appearance of the new rulers and didn't even consider sending devices that help them reach the 100s of thousands stuck underground.

[TomboyGirl-nr]

I have heard records of ppl in the prison beaten, abused, and tortured to disbelieve in god and worship and submit to bashar and say he is the only god and to worship him only not god ! They were making people leave islam to worship and submit to bashar al assad !
I hope people who hate islam and muslims and say bad things about islam and muslims all the time will kindly and respectfuly shut their mouthes after knowing that !

[mastarulamasta]

This is hard to stomach. So Sorry for all innocent people that had to suffer.

[martyburd]

How can one family in power be so haneously cruel and wicked? God knows.

[allousha]

So the world can finally see what innocent Syrian people have endured.

[jediTempleGuard]

After watching all these horrible images... I don't care what others say... I just want to thank Turkey for helping syrian people inside and outside.

[elr]

Indiscribable, horrible sight in the video. Every Syrians was accused of terrorist but the treatment is more than that beyond inhumane and genocide .

[CannaGro]

This better not be like CNN's fake broadcast!

[auro]

0:58 what are in those books and files on shelf?

[BeckiiChris]

Father in heaven give peace to these families how on earth has this all happened without the help of the world this should of been news every day till the world did something shame on all of us