Tadmor Prison

Tadmor Prison

Tadmor prison ( _ar. سجن تدمر) is located in Palmyra in the deserts of eastern Syria approximately 200 kilometers northeast of Damascus ("Tadmor", or "Tadmur" is the Arabic name for Palmyra).

The structures were originally built as military barracks by the French Mandate forces and is known for harsh conditions, extensive human rights abuse, torture and summary executions.

During the 1980s Tadmor prison housed thousands of Syrian prisoners, both political and criminal and it was also the scene of a 1980 massacre of prisoners by Rifaat al-Assad, after the Syrian branch of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood had attempted to assassinate his brother, president Hafez al-Assad. It is estimated that one thousand prisoner were killed in the massacre [ [http://www.shrc.org/data/aspx/d3/3243.aspx SHRC.org | The Tadmur (Palmyra) Prison Massacre on its 27th Anniversary| 2007 Reports ] ] .

While the feared Mezze prison in Damascus was closed by Bashar al-Assad after he assumed power in 2000, Tadmor prison is still in use.

External links

* [http://hrw.org/reports/1996/Syria2.htm A 1996 Human Rights Watch report on Tadmor prison]

ee also

* Hama Massacre


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