10/12/2024–|Last updated: 12/10/202401:04 PM (Mecca time)
Sednaya Prison, or as it is known as the “Human Slaughterhouse”, is the most criminal prison for the Assad family in Syria. After the escape of ousted President Bashar al-Assad from Damascus and the fall of his regime, people and the families of the detainees went directly to Sednaya Detention Center in the Damascus countryside to search for their relatives and witness the horror that was going on inside it. The detainees live there.
During their tour inside Saydnaya Prison to search for detainees, people were surprised by the presence of an “automatic piston.” Video clips showed the piston in an execution room, and it was said that it was used to dispose of the bodies of detainees after they were executed by hanging, while some speculated that it was even used to execute prisoners while they were alive, while he said Others say that it is an automatic elevator that was used to lift bodies into it after their owners were executed.
The scenes of the press, the hanging ropes, the traces of blood still on them, and other scenes of torture that exceeded the methods of torture in any of the world’s prisons, sparked a state of shock and anger among the audience on social media platforms.
Website users focused on commenting on the “execution press” or the “corpse press.” Tweeters said, “Only in the Assad family prisons, and in Sednaya prison specifically, is there a press to empty bodily fluids after the prisoner’s neck is broken with execution ropes that are not intended for execution in the first place.”
After that, it is placed in a hydraulic press, so that the body is crushed and emptied of fluids (blood), to make it easier for the jailer (butcher) to move the bodies lightly to unknown places.
Others, astonished by what was happening in this human slaughterhouse, wrote, saying, “In the corridors of Saydnaya Prison, where the shadows of death intertwine with the prisoners’ breaths, the automated prison press stands out as a hideous symbol of systematic brutality.”
They add that what most provokes thought and shakes the soul in this place is treating the human being as if he were raw material, as a body devoid of a soul, with no entity or value except in the numbers he adds to the records of the unjust regime.
This piston, with its metallic coldness and mechanical precision, embodies the cruelty of a punishment machine stripped of any sense of mercy. He does not differentiate between one life and another, and sees in the body of the convict nothing but a goal worthy of his final fate.
A blogger commented on the scene of the execution press: “Here, the meanings of humanity are destroyed, there is no room for emotion, and there is no room for intercession. Souls are equal before the machine, just as stones are equal in the hand of a sculptor. They are shaped and thrown without regard to what was or what will be. It is a blatant embodiment of the idea of reducing the human being to a mere number.” While ignoring his history, his feelings, and his dreams that he may have had until the last moment.”
Others wrote about the ousted Assad regime’s use of the ugliness of what they were committing to the Syrian people, saying, “The mentality of the failed tyrant will never think of anything useful. The greatest creativity you can reach is the automatic press. It is the mentality of oppression and suppression. It suppresses people alive and compresses them dead.”
The Syrian Civil Defense announced the end of the search for potential detainees in Saydnaya prison in the Damascus countryside, without finding any secret cells or basements that had not yet been opened.
The Civil Defense added in a statement that the prison contained thousands of innocent people who were arrested by Bashar al-Assad’s regime, amid a belief that some of them were unable to leave with hundreds of detainees during the past two days.
