Inside Syria's notorious Sednaya prison

Times correspondent Louise Callaghan goes inside Syria's notorious Sednaya prison after the fall of Assad's regime.

As Syrian rebels moved into the capital, Damascus, there was one building more than any other in their sights.

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Sednaya, the infamous “human slaughterhouse” outside Damascus, was where thousands of regime opponents had been locked up, tortured and killed from the earliest days of the 2011 uprising to the long brutal years of civil war.

Rebels filmed as they entered Sednaya, nestled incongruously in the peaceful hills north of Damascus, alongside a monastery and the country villas of Syrian and Arab elites.

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