Rescuers Breaking Through To Inmates Of Assad's Underground Prison In Syria

• 9.12.2024, 15:52

There are more than 10 thousand people in the underground cells.

In Syria, thousands of people are being rescued from underground cells from the Sednaya prison, known as a “death camp” and a “human slaughterhouse”.

According to The Telegraph, the rebels entered the territory of Sednaya on December 8. They began to open the metal doors of the cells to free thousands of exhausted, shocked prisoners.

It is noted that rescue operations are currently ongoing, it is assumed that more than 10 thousand people are in the underground cells. “They are held in a labyrinth of cells, at a depth of up to 30 meters underground. People are locked behind massive doors,” the publication writes.

According to media reports, many prisoners were in the dungeon without electricity, food, water and access to air. There is no free access to these cells — the doors are locked with electronic locks that require special codes. Therefore, to save people in underground compartments, they have to break through the floor and walls. So far, rescuers have reached two of the four underground floors.

Gallows were found in this prison, and people were kept underground in terrible conditions.

One of the released said: “You will be hard pressed to find a former prisoner of Sednaya who will tell you what really happened there, because it is so humiliating. I don’t even know what words to choose to describe what I saw.”

The Telegraph also published a video from this prison, from which it follows that in one of the cells there was a small child. The child was in prison with his mother.

“The tiny child’s eyes were full of curiosity and trepidation, and his liberators shouted: “Run! Run!” The rescue of this terrified child from Syria’s darkest prison is perhaps the most fitting symbol of the fall of Bashar al-Assad,” the newspaper writes.