After the fall of the Assad regime and the opening of the infamous Sednaya and other prisons across Syria, gruesome information is slowly coming to light about the medieval torture endured for years by dissidents, their relatives and those arrested as terrorists.

Thousands of opposition supporters are said to have been tortured and executed under the Assad regime in the Sednaya undergrounds, while the survivors survived in squalid, inhumane conditions.

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Gangs, merciless beatings – often to death – and horrific sexual abuse of men and women were on the daily agenda in prisons and detention centres.

Many of the prisoners released from Sednaya returned home after years physically disfigured and mentally retarded by the regime’s torture they endured, most of them for decades.

The international media entered the prisons opened by the rebels and documented the torture chambers and the means of extermination of the prisoners.

One of them was “iron press” that crushed the prisoners, dead or alive.

The “press” was used either as means of torture of humans, causing them incredible pain and terror, either as a means crushing the corpses of the hanged, so that the bodies do not take up any space.

The corpse was pressed in the press so that it came out like a sheet of paper, and then the remains of the corpse were collected in bags and came out as “junk» outside the prison. Under the press were channels to collect the blood.

Electric shocks to the genitals, virtual drownings and medieval torture boards that were folded in half were some of the other tortures endured by tens of thousands of dissident prisoners, Syrians, Lebanese and Westerners who had been arrested in Syria on various charges.

Journalists from international agencies described Sednaya prison as concentration campwith piles of corpses, skeletal inmates, and people who lived there for decades – among them children who were born in this environment.

In fact, in recent years, one was added to the prison facilities crematorium for the cremation of bodies from mass executions.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimated in January 2021 that, since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, 30,000 prisoners have been brutally killed by the Assad regime through torture, ill-treatment and mass executions.