Action Group Syria
Recently discovered leaked documents from Sednaya Military Prison, north of Damascus, have revealed the execution of 70 civilian detainees in a single hour at dawn on January 14, 2014.
According to the documents, the executions were carried out at 4:30 a.m. inside the prison without fair trials or any publicly known legal procedures, as stated in the leaks.
Among the victims were two Palestinian-Syrian refugees from the Sayyida Zeinab area in the Damascus countryside: Mohammad Hussein Ibrahim and Nizar Salem Ali. The rest of the names belonged to Syrian citizens who were held in the prison at the time.
Sednaya Military Prison is one of the most notorious detention centers operated by the Syrian regime. International human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have documented severe abuses committed there over the years, including systematic torture, field executions, and the enforced disappearance of thousands of detainees since 2011.
These newly uncovered documents provide further evidence of the violations committed in the prison and underscore the urgent need for an independent international investigation into the fate of the thousands of missing and detained individuals in Syria.