Syrian prison system revealed

"Most of the bodies were emaciated, the skin hanging off their bones.The shoulders of one man was covered in the scars of puncture wounds.Another had a thick red scar around his neck — a rope burn. Yet another man was missing his eyes." Hell under Assad www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/world/middleeast/syria-prisoners-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gk4.W5yH.m7_k_jZY6nnw&smid=tw-share

For over a decade, tens of thousands of Syrians “would disappear without explanation....Many of the disappeared had been thrown into President Bashar al-Assad’s vast network of prisons, where they were tortured and killed on an industrial scale." trib.al/peOS7Sn

This may be one of the most profound pieces of TV/cable journalism i've seen in ages. www.cnn.com/2024/12/11/world/video/syrian-prisoner-freed-clarissa-ward-digvid

One of the most important, affecting, and humbling things you will see this year. Well worth five minutes of your time. And another five - which is what it tooke me to pull myself together afterwards. ~AA edition.cnn.com/2024/12/11/world/video/syrian-prisoner-freed-clarissa-ward-digvid