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Tadmor prison (Arabic: سجن تدمر) was located in Palmyra (Tadmor in Arabic) in the deserts of eastern Syria approximately 200 kilometers northeast of Damascus. Tadmor prison was known for harsh conditions, extensive human rights abuse, torture and summary executions. A 2001 report by Amnesty International called it a source of "despair ...
Jun 19, 2015 · When Islamic State seized Palmyra in Syria last month, one of the first things it did was blow up the Tadmur prison - the country's most notorious jail, where for decades, political dissidents...
Jul 10, 2019 · The 39th Anniversary of the Tadmur Prison Massacre. In 1980, Hafez and his brother Rifaat al-Assad ordered their forces to execute every prisoner in sight in retaliation for a failed...
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In 2001, following a general amnesty for several hundred political prisoners, the Syrian government reportedly closed its most infamous detention center—the Tadmor military prison. Human rights organizations, both local and international, had made Tadmor the subject of intense scrutiny from the 1980s onward.
Jul 16, 2010 · Human Rights Watch has documented extensive human rights abuse, torture, and summary executions in Tadmor prison, a facility used to detain thousands of political prisoners in the 1980s; it was...
NameDate Of Arrest And ContextCharges/sentence`Abed al-Hafith `Abed al-Rahman, Syrian ...Detained on March 2, 2010. The ...No information available at writing.Ahmed Mustafa Ben Mohammad (known as ...Detained on November 7, 2009 shortly ...He was released on bail on April 27, ...Haytham al-Maleh, human rights lawyer, ...Detained on October 14, 2009, following ...A military court sentenced him on July ...Muhanad al-Hasani, human rights lawyer ...Detained on July 28, 2009, in ...Criminal court sentenced him on June ...Tadmor Prison lies about 200 kilometers north-east of Damascus, in the Homs desert near the ancient site of Palmyra. It is classified among the most notorious detention centres in the world. Amnesty International considers Tadmur Central Prison to be synonymous with "brutality, despair and inhumanity."
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Tadmur Prison is commonly referred to in Syria today as a place where “the person who enters is lost, and the one who leaves is born”. The prison gained this notorious reputation on account of the persistent reports over many years of systematic torture and ill-treatment.
