[NPASyria] Secret Iranian prisons disguised as Syrian government facilities, located in areas under its control are sites to the most heinous types of torture, and no less dangerous than government detention centers. After a lengthy research procedure and interviewing several experts familiar with the topic, including an ex-detainee, | There are seven secret Iranian prisons in Syria: in Deir ez-Zor, there is the Deir ez-Zor airport prison, the Hamdan airport prison in Abu Kamal, and the al-Mayadin prison, while in Homs, there is a prison in the Sukhnah desert, one in Palmyra, and one at the Zamlat al-Muhr gas field. |
"I will not survive" is the thought that first entered Ali al-Ahmed’s (pseudonym for a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards) mind as he narrated the first moment of his arrest by fellow IRGC members, under the charge of leaking information.