The camera captured the inhumane conditions in which detainees were held in the cells of Mezzeh Military Prison in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
The footage showed the personal belongings of detainees still in the prison, which the detainees were released from after the fall of the regime, and which was run by the military intelligence of the Assad regime.
The camera also captured writings, including Quranic verses and drawings on the walls of the cells drawn by detainees.
Detainees drew tables to know the number of days they spent inside those cells away from their families.
Among the things the lens captured were a doll, plates and food thrown on the floor in the cells.
Reports indicate that about 700 people, including women, were detained in this prison under inhumane conditions, as between 6 and 8 detainees were placed in solitary confinement cells and about 80 people in cells designated for 10 people .
In a statement to Anadolu, former detainee Mahmoud Abdel Baqi Muhammad explained that they lived under extremely harsh conditions in the prison.
"They didn't treat us like human beings, and now I'm in a dream," he said.
Tens of thousands of people were tortured for years in prisons run by the collapsed Baath regime in Syria, most notably Sednaya in the Damascus countryside, Mezzeh and Qaboun in Damascus, and Al-Baloun and Tadmor in Homs, where most of the people detained for years in those prisons have not been heard from.
On December 8, Syrian factions took control of the capital Damascus and other cities before it, with regime forces withdrawing from public institutions and streets, thus ending 61 years of Baath Party rule and 53 years of Assad family rule.
The factions proceeded to open all prisons and detention centers and release prisoners and detainees from them.
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