Inside Syria’s Secret Torture Prisons: How Bashar al-Assad Crushed Dissent

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have languished in the government’s vast prison complex, untold numbers the victim of inhuman conditions, torture, and extrajudicial killing. CIJA’s evidence holdings include memos from Syria’s intelligence agencies acknowledging and ordering abuses in detention, corroborating the infamous Caesar photographs and helping to identify individuals within the collection.