US EditionSyria: Leaked material details atrocities at Assad prisons
- A leaked cache of tens of thousands of images shows starved, tortured detainees from Assad-era prisons, including a father of two, with more than 70,000 photographs dated 2015–2024 shared by German broadcaster NDR, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and The Irish Times.
- A former colonel who led the Evidence Preservation Unit kept the files on a hard drive until December 2024 and leaked them after the regime fell, revealing his identity in February this year.
- The photographs show at least 10,212 pictured detainees, nearly half naked and three-quarters starving, identified by numbered papers and photographic metadata including branch code and death sequence.
- On December 9th, 2024, family members searched inside Sednaya prison as two new commissions on transitional justice and the search for the missing were established, and a list of more than 1,500 names was shared with the UN's Independent Institution on Missing Persons in Syria.
- The material could provide evidence for prosecutions as copies held by the Syrian Centre for Legal Studies and Research and the German Federal General Prosecutor could support trials under Germany's universal jurisdiction for crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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