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20 OCT, 2026

Over 70 rights groups urge Egypt to release Matsad2sh journalists

79 organisations have condemned Egypt's detention of six fact-checking journalists, demanding their release amid allegations of torture and a press crackdown.

Mohamed Mahmoud

Muslim Brotherhood

5 OCT, 2026

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

Amnistie générale : le compte à rebours lancé, la tension monte à Tripoli

Les milieux islamistes menacent d'escalade s'ils n'obtiennent pas satisfaction : « Si la loi est abrogée, ce sera une véritable déclaration de guerre ».

Constitutional Council (CC)

Islamist Detainees

Mohamed Sablouh

4 OCT, 2026

Egyptian journalist faces terrorism charges after entire newsroom detained

Calls for release of six Matsadaash staff after one is charged, while whereabouts of other five remain unknown

Egyptian Initiative For Personal Rights

Egyptian Journalists Syndicate

Mohamed Mahmoud

Muslim Brotherhood

Terrorism Charges

15 SEP, 2026

They wanted to break us: The silent mental health crisis facing Syria's ex-prisoners

Human Slaughterhouse

Psychological Disorder

Saydnaya Prison

15 SEP, 2026

Six inmates have died in Lebanon since adoption of General Amnesty law

Committee of the Families of Prisoners

Death in Custody

Inhumane Detention Conditions

Overcrowded Prisons

14 SEP, 2026

Roumieh inmates begin open-ended hunger strike

Committee of the Families of Prisoners

Inhumane Detention Conditions

12 SEP, 2026

At least seven killed in fire at prison in northern Syria

Ahmed Al-Sharaa

Bashar Al-Assad

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

SAUDI ARABIA | YEMEN

7 SEP, 2026

Houthis accuse Saudi Arabia of killing seven in Yemen prison air strike

4 SEP, 2026

Lebanon abolished the death penalty, but its new amnesty law divides the country

Death in Custody

National Human Rights Commission

Overcrowded Prisons

28 AUG, 2026

Two inmates dead in four days in two Lebanese prisons

Committee of the Families of Prisoners

Death in Custody

Mohamed Sablouh

26 AUG, 2026

Prisons in Tunisia: Heat Wave, A Double Sentence

Overcrowded Prisons

19 AUG, 2026

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

En Syrie, la mort d’un détenu sous la torture ravive les plaies de l’ère Assad

Ahmed Al-Sharaa

Death in Custody

12 AUG, 2026

Who is Atef Najib, Assad cousin sentenced to death over Daraa crackdown?

Bashar Al-Assad

ISRAEL | PALESTINE

7 JUL, 2026

Lawyer says detained Gaza doctor was severely beaten in Israeli jail

Hussam Abu Safiya

Israeli Prison Service

LEBANON | SYRIA

24 JUN, 2026

Damascus Receives 128 Syrian Prisoners From Lebanon

Overcrowded Prisons

Syrian Detainees in Lebanon

LEBANON | SYRIA

24 JUN, 2026

Lebanon transfers 128 Syrian prisoners to Syria under agreement

Ahmed Al-Sharaa

Bashar Al-Assad

Islamist Detainees

Overcrowded Prisons

26 MAY, 2026

There Is Nothing More Nightmarish

Ahmed Al-Sharaa

Bashar Al-Assad

Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham

21 MAY, 2026

SYRIA JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY CENTRE (SJAC)

Atef Najib Trial Highlights Need for Transitional Justice Law

Transitional Justice

28 APR, 2026

NEW LINES MAGAZINE

How Syrian Forces Captured the Man Behind the Tadamon Massacre

Military Intelligence Directorate

Tadamon Massacre

ISRAEL | LEBANON

30 MAR, 2026

NEW LINES MAGAZINE

Satellite Imagery Reveals the Israeli Demolition of Khiam Detention Center

Butcher of Khiam

Khiam Detention Center

23 JAN, 2026

'I didn't hear from my son for seven months': Inside Yemen's UAE-run secret prisons

22 DEC, 2025

Syrians emptied Assad’s prisons. They’re filling up again, and abuse is rife

Ahmed Al-Sharaa

Al-Khatib Branch - Branch 251

Bashar Al-Assad

Mezzeh Air Base

Saydnaya Prison

11 DEC, 2025

En Algérie, le syndicalisme mène en prison

Abdulaziz Bouteflika

LEBANON | SYRIA

11 DEC, 2025

Syrian detainees in Lebanon: Tensions rise between Damascus and Beirut

Ahmed Al-Sharaa

Bashar Al-Assad

Syrian Detainees in Lebanon

10 DEC, 2025

THE NEW HUMANITARIAN

One year on, trauma and healing in Syria

Bashar Al-Assad

Saydnaya Prison

Ta'afi Initiative

Transitional Justice

LEBANON | SYRIA

10 DEC, 2025

Damascus says no Lebanese prisoners remain in Syria as talks on Syrian detainees in Lebanon continue

Ahmed Al-Sharaa

Lebanese Detainees in Syria

Syrian Detainees in Lebanon

LEBANON | SYRIA

10 DEC, 2025

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

Damas affirme qu’il n’y a plus de prisonniers libanais en Syrie

Lebanese Detainees in Syria

Syrian Detainees in Lebanon

4 DEC, 2025

After 13 years of searching, a Syrian man learns his brother’s fate

Damascus Dossier

4 DEC, 2025

Assad’s archive of death

Bashar Al-Assad

Damascus Dossier

Mazen Al-Hamada

22 OCT, 2025

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

Détention d'un responsable du pouvoir déchu en charge de la prison de Saydnaya

Akram Salloum Al-Abdullah

Bashar Al-Assad

Saydnaya Prison

18 OCT, 2025

Rape: Assad's weapon of war during the Syrian revolution

Branch 235 - Palestine Branch

15 OCT, 2025

Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds

Bashar Al-Assad

ISRAEL | PALESTINE

14 OCT, 2025

‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail

Denied Medical Care

Food Limitations

Public Committee against Torture in Israel

Systematic Torture

Unsanitary Conditions

ISRAEL | PALESTINE

11 OCT, 2025

Israel rejects freeing from prison the most popular Palestinian leader

Marwan Barghouti

ISRAEL | PALESTINE

11 OCT, 2025

MIDDLE EAST EYE

Israel will not release Dr Hussam Abu Safiya as part of Gaza deal

Hussam Abu Safiya

Palestinian Center For Human Rights

LEBANON | LIBYA

11 OCT, 2025

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

Hannibal Kadhafi sera entendu vendredi par la justice libanaise, pour la première fois en huit ans

Hannibal Al-Qaddafi

Muammar al-Qaddafi

23 SEP, 2025

British-Egyptian activist reunited with family after release from prison

Abdelfattah Al-Sisi

Alaa Abdelfattah

Wadi Al-Natrun Prison

15 SEP, 2025

Syria Prisons Museum opens in Damascus, honouring the victims of torture under Assad regime

Saydnaya Prison

Syria Prisons Museum

14 JUL, 2025

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

George Sabra : la nouvelle vie syrienne d’un rescapé de la « barbarie » assadienne

Communist Party

Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham

Saydnaya Prison

LEBANON | LIBYA

14 JUL, 2025

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

Détention de Hannibal Kadhafi : la Libye dénonce un « manque de coopération » de Beyrouth

Hannibal Al-Qaddafi

Muammar al-Qaddafi

LEBANON | SYRIA

14 JUL, 2025

Syrian detainees in Lebanon: Beirut open to compromise under conditions

Overcrowded Prisons

Syrian Detainees in Lebanon

Terrorism Charges

LEBANON | SYRIA

14 JUL, 2025

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

Détenus syriens au Liban : Beyrouth ouvert à un compromis sous conditions

Overcrowded Prisons

Syrian Detainees in Lebanon

Terrorism Charges

8 JUL, 2025

Iranian State Media Calls for Return of 1988 Mass Executions

Ruhollah Khomeini

1 JUL, 2025

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

« Les frappes israéliennes sur la prison d’Evin ont fragilisé la lutte des dissidents »

Ghezel Hesar Prison 1

Israeli Air Strikes

Tehran Borzorgh Prison

24 JUN, 2025

I spent five years in Iran’s notorious Evin prison but when Israel bombed it I felt horror and fear

Israeli Air Strikes

5 JUN, 2025

NEW LINES MAGAZINE

Assad’s Prisons and the Need for Justice

Bashar Al-Assad

Mazen Al-Hamada

Saydnaya Prison

Syria Prisons Museum

Transitional Justice

26 MAY, 2025

Torture and Tres Leches in Iran's Most Notorious Prison

Iranian Revolution 1979

Mohamed Reda Pahlavi

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Niloufar Bayani

Sepideh Gholian

LEBANON | SYRIA

17 MAY, 2025

Syrian Women in Lebanese Prison [3]: When Illiteracy Is Erased by a Love Letter and a Story

General Security

Syrian Detainees in Lebanon

LEBANON | SYRIA

14 MAY, 2025

Syrian Women in Lebanese Prisons [2]: The Cell That Awakened the Trauma of the First Rape

General Security

Syrian Detainees in Lebanon

LEBANON | SYRIA

9 MAY, 2025

Syrian Women in Lebanese Prisons [1]: Breaking Dignity Behind Bars

Bashar Al-Assad

General Security

Syrian Detainees in Lebanon

ISRAEL | PALESTINE

7 APR, 2025

Chemical burns, assaults, electric shocks - Gazans tell BBC of torture in Israeli detention

Sde Teiman Prison

3 APR, 2025

"We did not expect so few had survived"

Bashar Al-Assad

Free Syrian Army

Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham

Saydnaya Prison

Syrian National Army

LEBANON | SYRIA

31 MAR, 2025

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

« Aucune personne considérée comme disparue n’est rentrée au Liban depuis la chute du régime d’Assad »

Bashar Al-Assad

LEBANON | SYRIA

31 MAR, 2025

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

Pour les familles de disparus libanais en Syrie, le temps de la désillusion

Enforced Disappearance

30 MAR, 2025

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

En Syrie, la longue marche des familles de disparus pour la vérité

Bashar Al-Assad

Families for Freedom

Saydnaya Prison

30 MAR, 2025

Survivors of Assad's prisons call for help

ISRAEL | LEBANON

28 MAR, 2025

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

« Nidaa Ansar », aucune prison israélienne n’enfermera ton poème

Ansar Central Prison

ISRAEL | PALESTINE

24 MAR, 2025

Oscar-winning Palestinian director of ‘No Other Land’ assaulted by Israeli settlers in the West Bank

20 FEB, 2025

Au procès des geôliers de l’Etat islamique, le récit sidérant de l’ancien otage Edouard Elias, journaliste jusqu’au bout de l’enfer

Didier François

Mahdi Nemmouche

19 FEB, 2025

The Ghosts of Saydnaya Prison

Saydnaya Prison

EGYPT | LEBANON | UAE

7 JAN, 2025

Despite protests, Lebanese government decides to extradite Abdul Rahman Yusuf

Abdulrahman Yusuf

Bashar Al-Assad

Mohamed Sablouh

Muslim Brotherhood

Youssef Qardawi

6 JAN, 2025

NEW LINES MAGAZINE

Heartache and Hope at Syria’s Border With Jordan

Bashar Al-Assad

Branch 235 - Palestine Branch

Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham

Saydnaya Prison

2 JAN, 2025

Mass graves in Syria lay bare the depths of Assad's repression

Caesar Families Association

ISRAEL | PALESTINE

31 DEC, 2024

Amid ceasefire push, Palestinians bear the scars of Israeli detention

Israeli Prison Service

Sde Teiman Prison

ISRAEL | PALESTINE

30 DEC, 2024

MIDDLE EAST MONITOR

Hussam Abu Safiya: family calls for international action to protect him

Enforced Disappearance

Hussam Abu Safiya

Kamal Adwan Hospital

ISRAEL | PALESTINE

30 DEC, 2024

Kamal Adwan's Dr. Abu Safiya held in notorious Sde Teiman detention camp: report

Enforced Disappearance

Hussam Abu Safiya

Kamal Adwan Hospital

Sde Teiman Prison

28 DEC, 2024

THE SUNDAY TIMES

Secret Assad files show Stasi of Syria put children on trial

Bashar Al-Assad

28 DEC, 2024

The Syrian gulag was primarily aimed at demobilizing political society

Bashar Al-Assad

Branch 235 - Palestine Branch

Uğur Ümit Üngör

23 DEC, 2024

Brutally tortured, then killed: the man who told the world about Syria’s pain

Mazen Al-Hamada

Mezzeh Air Base

Saydnaya Prison

LEBANON | SYRIA

23 DEC, 2024

The Lebanese missing in Syria: A tragedy turned political weapon

Hassan Ali Al-Ali

Lebanese Detainees in Syria

Saydnaya Prison

Syrian military intelligence facility in Anjar

LEBANON | SYRIA

23 DEC, 2024

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

J’aurais préféré qu’Israël me tue : le calvaire de 18 ans d’un berger libanais dans les geôles syriennes

Branch 235 - Palestine Branch

Jamal Hassan Nabaa

Lebanese Detainees in Syria

Saydnaya Prison

20 DEC, 2024

MIDDLE EAST EYE

The torture, sexual violence and social stigma faced by Syria's women prisoners

Sexual Violence

LEBANON | SYRIA

20 DEC, 2024

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

Les détenus islamistes, une bombe à retardement pour le Liban ?

ISRAEL | PALESTINE

19 DEC, 2024

‘My hands are paralyzed from torture’: Gazans reveal horrors of Ofer Camp

Food Limitations

Overcrowded Prisons

Sde Teiman Prison

17 DEC, 2024

Syria’s Paper Trail of Atrocity Must Be Preserved

Bashar Al-Assad

Enforced Disappearance

Extrajudicial Killings

Saydnaya Prison

Systematic Torture

LEBANON | SYRIA

17 DEC, 2024

Dashed hopes for five missing in Syria

Bashar Al-Assad

Youhanna Ibrahim

17 DEC, 2024

THE WASHINGTON POST

After Assad's fall, the task of unearthing the dead from Syria's mass graves is just beginning

Bashar Al-Assad

Syrian Emergency Task Force

17 DEC, 2024

Syrian mass graves expose 'machinery of death' under Assad, top prosecutor says

Bashar Al-Assad

17 DEC, 2024

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

Rescapé de la machine de mort du régime syrien

Fadel Abu Ghany

Khalil Aindoura

Saydnaya Prison

16 DEC, 2024

NEW LINES MAGAZINE

The Cruelty and Chaos of Damascus’ Palestine Branch

Branch 235 - Palestine Branch

Saydnaya Prison

LEBANON | SYRIA

16 DEC, 2024

Assad's fall revives hope for Lebanon's forgotten prisoners

Lebanese Detainees in Syria

LEBANON | SYRIA

16 DEC, 2024

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

Amnistie générale : Mikati réclame la nomination rapide d'un comité d'inspection des prisons

Lebanese Detainees in Syria

16 DEC, 2024

In Saidnaja haben wir dem Regime das Herz herausgerissen

Saydnaya Prison

15 DEC, 2024

Alaa Abd el-Fattah: mother on hunger strike takes protest to Westminster

Alaa Abdelfattah

15 DEC, 2024

THE SUNDAY TIMES

Bigger than Nuremberg: the secret files that could jail Assad

Bashar Al-Assad

Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham

14 DEC, 2024

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Syria Shudders as Assad’s Prison Atrocities Come Into the Light

Bashar Al-Assad

Saydnaya Prison

LEBANON | SYRIA

13 DEC, 2024

Lebanese imprisoned in Syria: Justice Minister says case being handled

Bashar Al-Assad

Lebanese Detainees in Syria

Saydnaya Prison

12 DEC, 2024

MIDDLE EAST EYE

Alois Brunner: The Nazi who helped the Assads torture Syrians

Bashar Al-Assad

12 DEC, 2024

ISIS Prisons Museum: A digital museum exposing the Islamic State group's heinous crimes and documenting the plight of detainees

12 DEC, 2024

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

Mazen el-Hamada, visage de la tragédie syrienne, « exécuté » à Saydnaya quelques jours avant la chute du régime

Mazen Al-Hamada

Saydnaya Prison

LEBANON | SYRIA

11 DEC, 2024

A Lebanese man who spent 32 years in Syrian prisons is welcomed home

Lebanese Detainees in Syria

Saydnaya Prison

11 DEC, 2024

Détenus libanais en Syrie: plainte contre Bachar el-Assad

Bashar Al-Assad

Lebanese Detainees in Syria

Lebanese Forces

11 DEC, 2024

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

« C'est mon frère » : dans un hôpital de Damas, des Syriens recherchent leurs proches passés par Saydnaya

Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham

Mazen Al-Hamada

Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

Saydnaya Prison

10 DEC, 2024

L'ORIENT LE JOUR

Pire qu’un abattoir humain : voyage au bout de l’enfer de Saydnaya

Saydnaya Prison

Youssef Dessouki

10 DEC, 2024

Syrian activist whose suffering became symbol of Assad brutality found dead in Sednaya prison

Fadel Abu Ghany

Mazen Al-Hamada

Saydnaya Prison

10 DEC, 2024

Bodies showing signs of torture found at Damascus hospital, Syria rebels say

Bashar Al-Assad

Harasta Military Hospital

Mohamed Al-Hajj

Saydnaya Prison

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

Syrian Red Crescent

Tishreen Hospital

LEBANON | SYRIA

10 DEC, 2024

Nine Lebanese held in Syria return to Lebanon: Mawlawi

Lebanese Detainees in Syria

LEBANON | SYRIA

10 DEC, 2024

Every day, I breathed torture

Act for the Disappeared

Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham

Lebanese Detainees in Syria

Saydnaya Prison

Solitary Confinement

11 NOV, 2024

THE NEW YORK TIMES

To Understand Egypt, Meet My Friend, a Political Prisoner

Abdelfattah Al-Sisi

Alaa Abdelfattah

Al-Aqrab Prison

1 OCT, 2024

Cell Phones Behind Bars in Lebanon

Overcrowded Prisons

Prison Literature