This place is scary, frightening, known as the human slaughterhouse and a place where “the inside is missing and the outside is born”, in which every right of the human beings are absent and even the lowest creatures are better than them. It is the place where the Assadist regime practices the most hideous and hateful types of violation to Syria itself and the dignity of the Syrian people, in every type of way and shape. That is the place where you can tell that for 40 years Syria hasn’t been ruled by a regime or a state but by a sectarian gang.
The main building of Saidnaya (red) has three stories. Each floor is divided into three sections. In each section there are 20 collective cells, whose length is 8 meters and it is 6 meters wide. The ground floor has almost the same characteristics of the design, but all the cells doesn’t exceed a surface of some metres and the individual ones don’t exceed their surface of a something more than a meter squared. The building has 3 wings. Seeing it from the top, its shape is close to the logo of the car “Mercedes” or a propeller, and together with its yard it is called “the gun”. The three wings have a high tower, followed by a building called “Building of Command” where there are offices of the offices that are responsible of the prison.
Methods of torture in Saidnaya prison, besides slapping and kicking:
1. Lash and whips
2. The Wheel: The frame of a car where the prisoner is put inside so it is impotent and unable to move during the beatings with sticks and whips and lashes with cables. The most famous of these cables is the wheel cable or the cover of a fan, which is characterized by a frightening sound and a huge impact on the human health, such as fragmentation of skin and bone fractures, due to its strength.
3. Plastic sticks
4. Electric shocks (prods)
5. Deprive of sleep and food and drinks for long periods
6. “Wind table”: where the prisoner is fixed to a folding board of wood to be tortured without any chance of moving. This is the most used torture method.
7. The German chair is known for its stability during the torture of the deainee, who is unable of doing anything but take a beating and to suffer.
8. Burning with cigarettes and solvents.
However, the detainee enters to jail and all the time he spends there he doesn’t see any shape or face of the guard; and he spends most of the time on his knees or with his face against the wall, which is the situation the moment the criminal guard enters into the wing.
The red building of the military prison of Saidnaya.
The jail of hell and a human slaughterhouse.
Mohamed Abu Faisal |
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