Inside Syria’s ‘human slaughterhouse’ execution block: Chilling images show punch bag used by guards to practice torturing prisoners and scattered possessions left behind

The White Building in Sednaya Prison, known as the execution block in Syria, has become a haunting symbol of the inhumane torture under Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Since his fall, Syrians have flooded the prison in search of missing loved ones, finding messages from beyond like a Celine Dion quote and a heartfelt letter to a man named Abu Jamlu. Photos of separated loved ones, desperate messages scratched into walls, and a maze of cramped cells filled with skeletal prisoners paint a harrowing picture of the horrors endured within the prison.

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