Saidnaya Prison
Coordinates: 33 ° 39 ′ 56 ″ N , 36 ° 19 ′ 48 ″ E
The prison Saidnaya , also known as Said Well , Sednaya or Sednaja known, a military prison in Syria .
location
The distinctive, three-beam main building is 17 km north of Damascus and 5 km southwest of Saidnaya . It is located in a 1403 hectare , almost square area in a semi-desert at an altitude of about 1300 m .
The actual prison complex comprises a guarded area of around 160 m × 260 m. This, together with other functional buildings, is enclosed in a second retaining ring, which has an area of 600 m × 600 m. In front of this is a third rampart and patrol ring , which encloses an area of 900 m × 1000 m. A fourth cordon ring spans the entire area with systems laid out according to plan and straight routes measuring 1.16 km × 1.22 km.
Between 10,000 and 20,000 people are being held in the facility: civilians in the red three-winged building and military personnel in the white building to the west.
history
A well-known prison inmate was Zahran Allusch . Hundreds of prisoners were wounded or killed in a protest by prison inmates in July 2008.
Although there was an amnesty for radical Islamic prisoners at the beginning of the peaceful protests against Assad in 2011 , many of those released later joined Islamist rebel groups such as Ahrar al-Sham .
According to a report by Amnesty International based on the testimony of 84 contemporary witnesses, between 5,000 and 13,000 civilians have been executed there on behalf of the Syrian regime under Bashar al-Assad since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011 .
In May 2017, the American government accused the Syrian government of building a crematorium on the prison grounds in order to be able to dispose of the bodies of executed inmates without causing a stir. The claim was based on satellite imagery in which the Americans attributed the lack of snow on a newer building in the complex to the intense heat inside. According to the State Department, they concluded that a crematorium was being operated there, which, according to the human rights organization Amnesty International, could not be independently confirmed.
In mid-2018, the Syrian regime issued around 5,000 death certificates for those who died in torture prisons. There are 13,000 confirmed deaths at the time.
Web links
- Saydnaya - Inside a Syrian Torture Prison , reconstruction of Forensic Architecture on Amnesty International
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press report Focus.online from September 8, 2016
- ^ Press report Spiegel.de
- ↑ https://saydnaya.amnesty.org/
- ↑ Amnesty on Syria: Report on mass executions with 13,000 dead. In: Spiegel Online . February 7, 2017, accessed June 10, 2018 .
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/aug/18/saydnaya-prison-syria-assad-amnesty-reconstruction
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-38885901
- ↑ Press report RP-online.de from February 7, 2017 (terrain model)
- ^ Karen DeYoung, "Syria using crematorium to hide executions, State Department says" Washington Post, May 15, 2017
- ↑ Inga Rogg: "A" Hollywood story "or proof of the depravity of the Syrian regime?" Neue Zürcher Zeitung from May 19, 2017
- ↑ Marc Röhlig bento: Why the Assad regime suddenly admits how many people it has tortured to death in Syria. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
- ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Syria: Death certificates to strengthen the Assad regime | DW | 08/04/2018. Retrieved on May 16, 2020 (German).