Today, Thursday, Syrian security forces arrested Major General Muhammad Kanjo Hassan, who is known to be primarily responsible for field executions in… Saydnaya prison Notorious during the rule of the ousted Bashar al-Assad regime.
This came in a statement by the “Deterring Aggression” operations room, via the “Telegram” platform, which was republished by the Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic on the same platform.
The Chamber published 3 photos of Muhammad Kanjo Hassan, two in uniform and the last in civilian clothes, during his arrest.
She said: “The first pictures of Major General Muhammad Kanjo Hassan, after the Public Security Forces arrested him.”
She added that “he was primarily responsible for field executions in Saydnaya Prison” in the Damascus countryside.
Muhammad Kanjo Hassan “will be tried directly before the people.”
In another publication, the Chamber said about Muhammad Kanjo Hassan that “this criminal was primarily responsible for the execution of thousands of Syrian youth detained in Saydnaya, and he will be tried directly before the people.”
Saydnaya Prison has long been one of the “most secret places in the world” and an icon To brutal repression Which was practiced by the regime, and Amnesty International even described it as a “human slaughterhouse,” due to the systematic torture and killing practices that were practiced against thousands of detainees.
Saydnaya Prison is located in the Damascus countryside, 30 kilometers north of the Syrian capital. It was established in the 1980s, and its area is estimated at 1.4 square kilometers.
Before the fall of the regime, “Sednaya” was one of the most fortified military prisons. It consisted of two buildings with several floors and sections, including three underground basements isolated from the outside, known as the “Red Section,” which housed detainees for more than 40 years.
The prison includes rooms 4 meters wide and five meters long, and there are no bathrooms. It is crowded with detainees.
Since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on December 8, thousands of Syrians have flocked to Saydnaya prison in the hope of finding their children among the liberated detainees.
International reports indicate that thousands of detainees were systematically and secretly killed inside the prison, where the collapsed regime carried out mass executions without trials between 2011 and 2015, at a rate of executing 50 people per week.
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