Sednaya Prison: What lies behind the campaign of denial?

For Syrians, the name ‘Sednaya Prison’ has long been synonymous with hell. For years, stories of torture, killing and systematic extermination circulated in hushed tones. The accounts are so grotesque they seemed almost too horrific to believe, like tales spun to terrify.People whispered these stories in secret, until the veil was finally lifted as the number of detainees grew and survivors began to speak out. Many who had passed through Sednaya’s notorious “Red Wing” escaped abroad and began to tell their stories openly. What had once sounded like folklore of fear turned into a catalogue of horrific testimonies.The real tragedy, however, is that human rights investigations and survivors’ accounts did not merely confirm those whispered tales; they revealed that the truth was far worse than…