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Horrors of Assad’s ‘slaughterhouse’ prison emerge

Horrors of Assad’s ‘slaughterhouse’ prison emerge

Thousands of prisoners have been freed from notorious Sadnaya outside Damascus, but the fate of thousands more who disappeared inside the jail are unknown.

Every night for the past 13 years, Rana Aankir has dreamt of her son Raed, his delicate drooping eyes smiling at her as he walks out of the family’s front door in Homs.

In her dreams, he wears the same red sweatshirt he threw over his shoulders before running off to a protest, something she learned only weeks later when he never came home.

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