The story of Saihe Nedim Barudi, a Syrian woman who contracted cancer after spending three months in regime prisons, is still vivid in the memory of her friends. Barudi, 55, died in February, almost five years after she was arrested by regime forces in the west-central Hama province on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Lebanese lawyer has uncovered a judicial scandal that took place in the palace of justice in Zahle town. The disappearance of the judicial file of the case of his client, the Syrian army defector Mohamed Nassif, in order to conceal the case in which five members of Hezbollah...

Syrian man jailed by the Bashar al-Assad regime has haunting memories of unbearable torture and abuse in the interrogation centers.   Jamal Abidin Najjar, a mechanical engineer, was detained while he was traveling from Syria to Lebanon as a warrant had been issued for his arrest...

Besides facing torture, many prisoners in Syrian jails are subjected to pay huge bribes in exchange of their freedom, say ex-prisoners. “My family paid a bribe of 500,000 Syrian liras (about $10,000) to one of the members of the Assad family for my release,” Um Hisam, 50, told Anadolu...