“What do you know what Sidnaya” .. A documentary reveals the disappointment of the slaughterhouse of the human lion regime policy

The documentary “What I know what Sidnaya”, which is broadcast on the “Al -Jazeera 360” platform, which can be seen through this, reveals LinkHorrific details that reveal for the first time about this prison, which was described as “human slaughterhouse”, and tracks its specificity and the reason for gaining its worst fame in the world with the practices of torture.

Sednaya prison, who officially entered service in 1987, was initially a center for the detention of political and military detainees, but over time it turned into a central prison for torture and collective executions, especially after the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in 2011.

In a narrow underground cell where there is no light or air, Muhammad Ali Issa – one of the survivors of Sednaya Military Prison – recounts the details of 19 years he spent between the walls of this prison, while the Syrian Civil Defense Director Raed Al -Saleh describes the prison in a certificate within the documentary as “Holocaust”.

The film is documented, by exploring Sednaya prison from different angles, the system on which the Prison Administration is based in dealing with detainees inside Syria, and accurate details – narrated by the detainees – especially in all stages of the prisoner’s journey from the moment of detention to freedom, deportation to hospitals or killing.

Sednaya prison was designed with a complex engineering, as it consists of floors on the ground and another under it, with interrelated passages, and made these designs from the prison maze that is difficult to escape.

According to the testimonies of the survivors, the prison contains narrow and dark cells, and execution rooms equipped with gallows and torture machines, and the prisoners were gathered in cells of no more than two square meters, while depriving them of their most basic human rights.

Systematic torture

Survival testimonies reveal that torture in Sednaya was systematic and continuous, as prisoners were severely beating, electricity, and deprivation of food and water for long periods, and methods of psychological torture such as forcing prisoners were used to watch the execution of their colleagues.

According to the testimony of one of the survivors, “They chose 5 prisoners every day and tortured them to death, and this was part of the daily routine.”

One of the most terrifying aspects in Sednaya prison is the mass executions, and according to the testimony of one of the survivors, “they were executed between 100 and 150 prisoners per day, and the bodies were transported to mass graves without any legal measures.”

The testimonies of the survivors of Sednaya prison reveal the extent of the suffering they lived, and among them Ali Al -Zaraba, who said that he spent 4 years in a dark cell, where he was tortured daily, and said, “They were hitting us until we lost consciousness, then they left us to wake up to repeat the process again.”

With the protests escalating in 2011, Sednaya turned into a mass grave for the revolutionaries, where a number of executions were estimated between 2011 and 2014 by about 30 thousand, according to the testimonies of survivors, while Munir Al -Faqir – a former prisoner – describes the death rooms as “concrete platforms that accommodate seven people … who were hanging ropes on iron symptoms, and leave the bodies for days before transporting them.”

The matter was not limited to the men, in a shocking scene, inside the execution rooms were found in women’s clothes and children’s shoes, although there were no official women detainees, and the film suggests that the regime was transferring detainees from other prisons to implement the rulings, then hides the crime evidence by burning rooms.

Direct orders

The film highlights the role of the Syrian regime in managing this deadly machine, according to the documents obtained, the executions and torture were carried out directly by security and military leaders, yet most of those responsible for these crimes are still divorced, without being held accountable for their actions.

Sednaya’s crimes did not end with death. The bodies were transported to the mujtahid hospital in Damascus, where the cause of death was fled, then buried in mass graves, Nayef Al -Hassan – who is the supervisor of the refrigerators of the dead in the hospital – reveals details in this context, saying, “They were bringing 6 bodies per day … death certificates are written with fake causes.”

As for the graves, they were dug in a systematic way, as one of the two fossils narrated “every trench is 200 meters long, and 4-5 people were buried in it .. We were wearing masks due to the smells of rotting bodies,” adding that it was buried in the cemetery of Al-Qatifa alone, thousands of victims, including women and children, without any funerary rituals.

Despite the fall of the regime in 2024, the executioners did not get their punishment, according to the detainee, the liberated Ali Al -Zaraba, who says, “The prisoner has fled … but we will not forgive them”, while Fawzi Al -Hamada is calling for international trials and the need to know the fate of the missing and hold accountable for both the blood of the Syrians.

The film concludes with a demand to turn the prison into a museum, says Manar Shakashiro, a missing detainee’s wife, “This place must remain a witness to the crime … so that the tragedy will not be repeated.”