The execution room in Assad's human slaughterhouse has been captured on video.

The overthrow of the 61-year Baath regime in Syria brought to light the prisons where those detained after the outbreak of the civil war were held and subjected to systematic human rights violations and torture. One of these is the Sednaya Prison, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Defense of the collapsed regime.

DETAINEES WERE SUBJECTED TO PHYSICAL VIOLENCE AS SOON AS THEY ARRIVED.

Detainees transported to the prison by white trucks referred to as "meat lockers" were subjected to physical violence by prison officials as soon as they arrived at the facility. There are two different detention facilities within the prison complex, referred to as the "white building" and the "red building." According to a report by Amnesty International, the majority of those held in the "red building" are civilians detained since 2011, while the "white building" houses officers and soldiers detained for "disloyalty" to the regime.

ABOUT 50 PEOPLE WERE HANGED EACH WEEK

Detainees were transferred to these buildings after facing unfair trials in military courts, usually located in the Mezze area of Damascus. The report states that detainees were blindfolded and taken to the "execution room" located in the southeast corner of the white building in the middle of the night, and that they were informed of their death sentences only a few minutes before the execution. It is recorded that between 2011 and 2015, approximately 50 people were hanged every week, sometimes every two weeks, and that the bodies were buried in mass graves near Damascus.

THE "EXECUTION ROOM" WHERE DETAINEES WERE TAKEN TO BE EXECUTED HAS BEEN REVEALED

After up to four hours of examinations in Sednaya Prison and the "white building," the location of the room described as the execution room was identified. The team entered through a burned door facing the outer courtyard in the southeast of the white building in the prison complex and descended down a three or four-step staircase. Upon turning right, they observed that three cells depicted in the blueprints had been removed, and that this area had been transformed into a kind of dormitory, with the interior of the dormitory and the bunks burned.

THEY KILLED BY BREAKING THEIR NECKS

In the section of the room where executions took place, two separate platforms and the stairs leading to these platforms were found to be exactly as depicted in the blueprints. The high platforms, which could accommodate several people and were accessed by a three-step staircase, had been reported in international reports as being used for executions. It was stated that on these platforms, executioners hung the detainees from the ceiling to make them die faster, thus breaking their necks.