The photo above shows Mohammad Hassan Na'san Agha, born in Idlib in 1954. He was arrested by members of the State Security Branch in Idlib on May 26, 1980, amid a violent security campaign targeting thousands of Syrians at that time. The branch was then under the command of Brigadier...

Noura, a child born just months after her father's arrest, had no idea that his fate had been sealed inside the dungeons of the most terrifying prison in modern Syrian history, the prisons of Hafez al-Assad. Mohamad Mamoun Khairo Shalabi, a graduate of the Arabic Language Department and a...

In the massive file published by Zaman al-Wasl newspaper, which includes the names of hundreds of people executed on the direct orders of Hafez al-Assad in the desert Tadmur Prison in central Syria between 1980 and 1985, the names of detainees of Arab nationalities, including Lebanese and...

For more than a decade, the names of thousands of Syrian activists, defectors, and medics remain present in the memory of the revolution, while their bodies disappear into prisons and then mass graves, with no information about their fate. The following are the names of five residents of...