The Syrian army has said it plans to close the brutal prisons run by ousted President Bashar al-Assad and will hunt down those involved in killing or torturing prisoners.
Opposition leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, also said he would disband the former regime’s security forces, according to a press release obtained by Reuters.
Footage shows thousands of prisoners being released from Saydnaya prison – which rights groups have described as a “human slaughterhouse” – after the fall of the Assad government on Sunday.
Nearly 60,000 people have been tortured and killed in Assad’s prisons, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights