A macabre torture machine used to crush our bodies has been found in a Syrian jail nicknamed the “human slaughterhouse.”
Video of the “iron press” was posted on-line as rebels freed inmates from Sednaya Jail close to Damascus, the capital of Syria.
The hydraulic press was filmed together with ropes and luggage allegedly used to get rid of the stays.
“After he’s hanged, they put him within the press and press him to change into like paper,” a caption accompanying the video reads. It continues: “His physique and bones are crushed. There are blood channels underneath the press. Then his stays are put in a bag and disposed of outdoor the jail.”
The press was reportedly used to crush and execute prisoners held by the Assad regime, which has been accused of human rights abuses.
The video has not been independently verified.
Amnesty Worldwide referred to as Sednaya Jail a “human slaughterhouse” and accused Assad’s authorities of systematic torture and of secretly executing as much as 13,000 Syrians on the time of the final rebellion between 2011 and 2016.
Syrian rebels are mentioned to have launched hundreds of prisoners, together with girls and youngsters, held in underground cells on the hellhole jail. There are studies that many extra are nonetheless trapped. The cells are mentioned to be in an unlimited community of buried tunnels which are solely accessible utilizing digital keypads.
An aerial view of the Sednaya Navy Jail after opposition fighters took it over on Dec. 9. / Emin Sansar/Anadolu through Getty Photos
Ladies inmates might be heard screaming with their kids as their cells have been opened. One toddler walked down a hall along with his mom.
“Don’t be afraid… Bashar Assad has fallen,” a insurgent advised one group of freed girls prisoners.
Author Bashar Barhoum, 63, was amongst these freed. He advised the Related Press he was attributable to be executed on Sunday.
“I haven’t seen the solar till as we speak,” he mentioned after spending seven months behind bars.
“As a substitute of being useless tomorrow, thank God, he gave me a brand new lease of life.”
The nation’s former President Bashar al-Assad has fled along with his household to Moscow, the place they’re being given asylum.