Men, women and children emerge from Sednaya prison in Damascus

As Syrian rebels captured city after city on the road to Damascus, they also opened the doors of the regime’s prisons, which were infamous for torture – including the notorious Sednaya. Footage from Sednaya shows a small child being freed by rebels. Upwards of 100,000 people are said to have been disappeared into Syria’s prisons during nearly 14 years of civil war.
Tears of joy and sadness as ‘disappeared’ Syrians emerge from Assad’s prisons