As pictures and videos of thousands of people being freed from various prisons operated by the former regime of Bashar al Assad flood social media streams, rights groups and experts are calling for accountability. Since anti-regime groups captured Damascus on November 8, forcing Assad to flee Syria and his military to collapse, thousands of people have emerged from cramped cells and dark dungeons of the Sednaya Prison in Damascus. There are now calls for collecting testimonies of prisoners and prosecuting those responsible for torturing and executing opponents of the regime.

 

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