Sednaya Prison
Sednaya Prison (Arabic: سجن صيدنايا Sijn Ṣaydnāyā), also known as the "Human Slaughterhouse" (المسلخ البشري), was a Syrian military prison and death camp that the Assad regime operated near Damascus from 1986 until the 2024 Syrian opposition offensives. For just over the first two decades after the first group of inmates arrived in 1987, the prison routinely held civilian detainees and political prisoners, but after the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, it was also used to hold anti-government rebels.