Syria’s disappeared: Leak of Assad torture photographs reveals fate of thousands
A leak of documents, including photographs, from the regime of Bashir al Assad has laid bare the bloody inner workings of his regime.
More than 33,000 photographs of detainees, mostly believed to have been taken in 2015-2024, show the extent of the degradation and torture inflicted on them by Assad’s regime.
For some families, the leak to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), finally gives the tragic answer to what happened to their loved ones.
Assad presided over Syria during the country’s 13-year civil war during which about half a million people were killed…
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