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Syria: Inside Assad's infamous jails

Ralph Martin
December 17, 2024

Thousands of prisoners have been freed from Assad's prisons. Rights groups say more than 15,000 people have been tortured to death there. DW follows a man who was held at Damascus' Adra jail.

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Ralph Martin TV news reporter and editor
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