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Sednaya Prison, also known as "Human Slaughterhouse", was a military prison and death camp in the northern part of Damascus, Syria, operated by Ba'athist Syria. Those imprisoned included civilian detainees, anti-government rebels, and political prisoners. In January 2021, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) estimated that 30,000 detainees were killed by the Assad regime in Sednaya from torture, ill-treatment, and mass executions since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, while Amnesty International estimated in February 2017 "that between 5,000 and 13,000 people were extrajudicially executed at Sednaya between September 2011 and December 2015."