No other building in the war-torn country of Syria symbolizes the sheer horror of the al-Assad family regime more, its former inmates say, than the Sednaya prison - so much so that they adopted a ...

I conceived this piece as an attempt to compare the modern systems of dehumanization that still exist and function in different corners of the world. Beirut. It's 18 degrees Celsius. The hum of an ...

Tens of thousands of Syrians were thrown into Sednaya during the Assad regime. The New York Times created a 3-D model of the prison. By Christina Goldbaum, Charlie Smart, Helmuth Rosales, Anjali ...

At the country’s most notorious prison, Syrians confront their worst fears: that they will never know what happened to the loved ones who disappeared. At the country’s most notorious prison, Syrians ...

Omar Alshogre spent time in Sednaya prison in Syria. He gives a real-life look at what life was like there, and what it was like to escape and live as a civilian. The fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime ...

Editor's Note: Stanislav Aseyev is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, veteran, and a survivor of the Izolyatsia prison in Russia-occupied Donetsk, infamous for its torture of prisoners. He was the first ...