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While Syrians have celebrated the fall of Bashar al-Assad's government, others have spent the past week searching for traces of their friends and relatives in notorious prisons across the country.
The Palestine Detention Center, known in Arabic as Fare'a Falstine, is one of the prisons. Here the detainees were physically and psychologically tortured without any clear charges against them.
Rebels now guarding the prison described how people were tortured and interrogated.
" Thank God we overthrew the tyrant Bashar and freed our brothers and, as you can say, the wind, without lighting, they (the arrested) were monitored by surveillance cameras. When they slept, they were lying on a slab, every prisoner was allowed to sleep on a slab and if they moved they would be beaten," said one of the insurgents.
He further showed the cruel conditions they faced every day, without lights, water and healthy food.
" The prison was very difficult, living in it is so difficult, no lights, no food, and when they gave you food it was rotten and you couldn't find it. It was only for the prisoner to live, nothing more than that to not be satisfied was so bad" , he added. It is worth noting that around 150,000 people have been arrested or disappeared in Syria since 2011.
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