Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people she saw were her interrogators. She thought that she would "die ...

Inside Syria's notorious Sednaya prison, dubbed the "human slaughterhouse", Sky News saw the conditions that people were kept in until the fall of the Assad regime. Sky News' lead world presenter ...

At least seven correctional officers have pleaded guilty or been convicted on charges of sexual abuse at the prison. The case against an eighth officer is still pending. Last year, a former prison ...

The network went viral last week with footage of the startled prisoner being led from the prison by journalist Clarissa Ward, who called it “one of the most extraordinary moments I have ...

They saw rebels in the prison's corridor instead of guards. "We said 'We are here. Free us,'" one of the inmates, 30-year-old Qasem Sobhi Al-Qabalani, recalls. As the door was shot open ...

File image of the Damascus Central Prison, also known as Adra Prison A former Syrian government official has been charged with torture in the United States, authorities said on Thursday.

At the country’s most notorious prison, Syrians confront their worst fears: that they will never know what happened to the loved ones who disappeared. At the country’s most notorious prison ...

A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where alleged human rights abuses took place has been charged with several counts of torture after being arrested in July for visa fraud ...

Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, 72, who served as the head of Syria's Adra Prison between 2005 and 2008 under the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, is accused by a U.S. grand jury of overseeing brutal ...

This week, many families descended upon the notorious military prison on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus, known as Sednaya. In 2017, Amnesty International described the prison as a “human ...

Amidst the lightning offensive to Damascus in Syria that toppled the Bashar al-Assad regime on Sunday (December 8), militants of the anti-government rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) stormed the ...

(AP Photo/George Walker IV, File) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee inmate has died and five others were injured after fights erupted at a privately run state prison, the facility’s operator said.