Here Al-Assad fled, there the rebels broke the prison locks, prisoners were freed from ‘human slaughterhouse’ – rebels broke prisons after Al Assad fled prisoners were freed from human slaughterhouse in syria ntc
Armed Syrian rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) released hundreds of prisoners detained by exiled President Bashar al-Assad. These prisons are called the ‘slaughterhouse of Syria’.
As rebels spread across Syria, they broke prison locks to free political prisoners detained by Assad since the beginning of protests in 2011 after government officials tasked with protecting them had fled. Those freed from prison included people who were believed to have disappeared.
‘I got a new life’
Bashar Barhoum, 63, was believed to have been hanged after seven months in prison. It took Barhourm, a writer, a few minutes to realize that the people who entered his cell were not Assad’s men but rebels who had come to liberate him.
After coming out of jail, Barhourm told the news agency Associated Press after seeing people celebrating Assad’s overthrow on the streets of Damascus, ‘I have not seen the sun till today. Instead of dying, thank God, he gave me a new life.
Prisoners freed from ‘human slaughterhouse’
The Sayednaya military prison, located north of Damascus, is known as the ‘Human Slaughterhouse’. As soon as the rebels entered the prison, the prisoners, including women and their children, started screaming in fear. An Amnesty International report said 13,000 Syrians were killed between 2011 and 2016, as dozens were secretly executed every week.
‘Don’t be afraid, Bashar Assad is gone’
“Don’t be afraid,” a rebel fighter said as he tried to get hundreds of women out of their crowded cells. Bashar Assad is gone! Why are you afraid?’ Human rights groups such as Amnesty International say torture, execution and starvation are “systematically” used against political prisoners in Syrian prisons.
