Thread 🧵 | Palmyra Or Tadmur Desert Prison
📌“It is designed to inflict the greatest amount of suffering, humiliation and fear.”
Amnesty International
📌“The inside is lost and the outside is born.”
The Syrians said about him.
📌 “It's like walking in a minefield.”
Described by a former prisoner
You may have read a lot about the criminal prisons that took place in history and were used by tyrants and tyrants, and heard the testimonies of those who left them, such as Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo, and the pain and torture they suffered.
But have you heard about Desert Prison?
Where the horror and madness that its detainees experienced and the bloody massacres that took place within its walls are engraved in the memories of the Syrians and Arabs who were led to it by fate.
#TadmurPrison is located in the desert city of Palmyra, about 200 km northeast of Damascus. It was built by the French in the middle of the desert in the 1930s and was officially opened by the Syrian state in 1966 as a prison designated for military personnel. is located in the desert city of Palmyra, about 200 km northeast of Damascus. It was built by the French in the middle of the desert in the 1930s and was officially opened by the Syrian state in 1966 as a prison designated for military personnel.
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📌“It is designed to inflict the greatest amount of suffering, humiliation and fear.”
Amnesty International
📌“The inside is lost and the outside is born.”
The Syrians said about him.
📌 “It's like walking in a minefield.”
Described by a former prisoner
You may have read a lot about the criminal prisons that took place in history and were used by tyrants and tyrants, and heard the testimonies of those who left them, such as Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo, and the pain and torture they suffered.
But have you heard about Desert Prison?
Where the horror and madness that its detainees experienced and the bloody massacres that took place within its walls are engraved in the memories of the Syrians and Arabs who were led to it by fate.
#TadmurPrison is located in the desert city of Palmyra, about 200 km northeast of Damascus. It was built by the French in the middle of the desert in the 1930s and was officially opened by the Syrian state in 1966 as a prison designated for military personnel. is located in the desert city of Palmyra, about 200 km northeast of Damascus. It was built by the French in the middle of the desert in the 1930s and was officially opened by the Syrian state in 1966 as a prison designated for military personnel.
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According to the testimonies of former prisoners who were in the prison, Nadmur Prison consists of:
7 outdoor yards
50 large dungeons
40 small cells
19 underground cells like grave for solitary confinement.
7 outdoor yards
50 large dungeons
40 small cells
19 underground cells like grave for solitary confinement.
According to the testimonies of former detainees in the Tadmur Desert Prison, the members of the prison apparatus are selected from the Nusayri sectarian minority (which constitutes 7% of Syria’s population), in particular, or from completely loyal party elements. The members of this apparatus have been subjected to training courses on the art of torture, field trials, and killing without mercy.
This is the testimony of Mustafa Khalifa (a Syrian Christian), the author of the novel The Shell, which talks about his days that he spent in Tadmur Prison.
This is the testimony of Mustafa Khalifa (a Syrian Christian), the author of the novel The Shell, which talks about his days that he spent in Tadmur Prison.
Human rights organizations documented 7 mass massacres that took place between 1980-1982, in which thousands of Syrians of all orientations were killed in Tadmur Prison.
“In the desert prison, death and life are equal to you, and in moments death becomes a wish.”
Mustafa Khalifa is a Syrian Christian writer and novelist. He was imprisoned for 12 years in the Tadmur Desert Prison, even though he is a Christian. He was accused by the Assad regime of belonging to an Islamic group, according to his novel “The Shell= El_koka.”
(The shell’s =El-Kokka novel talks about the diaries, events, and horrors that detainees experience, including torture, cruelty, and the brutality of Assad’s jailers. We will devote several thread 🧵 to it in which we translate what the detainees experienced. In that prison.)
Mustafa Khalifa is a Syrian Christian writer and novelist. He was imprisoned for 12 years in the Tadmur Desert Prison, even though he is a Christian. He was accused by the Assad regime of belonging to an Islamic group, according to his novel “The Shell= El_koka.”
(The shell’s =El-Kokka novel talks about the diaries, events, and horrors that detainees experience, including torture, cruelty, and the brutality of Assad’s jailers. We will devote several thread 🧵 to it in which we translate what the detainees experienced. In that prison.)
More than 35,000 detainees entered prison for fifty years during the rule of Assad, father and son, and only a third of them emerged alive, carrying stories, diseases, and traces of torture that the human mind cannot believe.
The Tadmur Desert Prison was like a slaughterhouse prepared for all kinds of slaughter, and the one in charge of it was free in how he used it and was creative with the method of killing and torture.
He became an inseparable part of the history of oppression in Syria, as Hafez al-Assad, and after him his son, carefully planned to make him a terrifying symbol that haunts the memory and lives of Syrians.
The Tadmur Desert Prison was like a slaughterhouse prepared for all kinds of slaughter, and the one in charge of it was free in how he used it and was creative with the method of killing and torture.
He became an inseparable part of the history of oppression in Syria, as Hafez al-Assad, and after him his son, carefully planned to make him a terrifying symbol that haunts the memory and lives of Syrians.
The methods of torture used by the jailers inside the Tadmur prison are so many that we cannot count them because, as we mentioned previously, the jailers are artistic and creative in the methods of torturing detainees, and we will mention some of them according to the testimonies of political detainees who were imprisoned many long decades before the Syrian revolution.
All types of torture methods that come to a person's mind and that may not occur are present in Syrian prisons
1- Psychological torture: The most famous of them is when a political prisoner enters Tadmur Prison, where the prison guard comes and says to the detainee, “God does not exist in Tadmur Prison. We are the ones who revive you and your trials are the ones who make you mortify.”
3-Receiving the political prisoner:
The reception in which a portion of the detainees who had been brought to the prison must die, This involves forcing the political prisoner to drink polluted water coming out of the drains , and The some detainee was beaten by several jailers until he died as a result of torture during the reception period
The reception in which a portion of the detainees who had been brought to the prison must die, This involves forcing the political prisoner to drink polluted water coming out of the drains , and The some detainee was beaten by several jailers until he died as a result of torture during the reception period
4-The difference between the rest period in Tadmur Prison and regular prisons in general. Continue
5-In Tadmur Prison, rest stops turn into punishment
The punishment for anyone who dares to open his eyes in Tadmur Prison during the break period is as follows:
Four jailers come, each jailer holds one of the prisoner's four limbs after he is lying on the ground, where the detainees swing him right and left and then throw him high. The result is severe damage to the detainee's spine, leading to It leads to paralysis, and in others it leads to death
The punishment for anyone who dares to open his eyes in Tadmur Prison during the break period is as follows:
Four jailers come, each jailer holds one of the prisoner's four limbs after he is lying on the ground, where the detainees swing him right and left and then throw him high. The result is severe damage to the detainee's spine, leading to It leads to paralysis, and in others it leads to death
6-The BASAT EL-REEH:
It is a primitive wooden device whereby the detainee sleeps on his back and is tied well so that he does not move, and then the jailers beat him either with sticks, bamboo, a tank engine coil cable, or a four-wheel cable.
It is a primitive wooden device whereby the detainee sleeps on his back and is tied well so that he does not move, and then the jailers beat him either with sticks, bamboo, a tank engine coil cable, or a four-wheel cable.
7-The method of torture by El-Shabah (hanging):
is to suspend the detainee by his hands from the ceiling or an upper window so that he remains suspended and raised from the ground, by his hands, for long periods of time.
is to suspend the detainee by his hands from the ceiling or an upper window so that he remains suspended and raised from the ground, by his hands, for long periods of time.
8-Torture by eating animals (mouse-eating torture)
Another testimony of another detainee about the torture of eating mice
9-The detainee in the Tadmur Desert Prison reaches a state of despair and leads to insanity and suicide due to excessive psychological and physical torture.
Even the word “Allahu Akbar” before the detainee was executed was forbidden
For more general explanation about Tadmur Prison
Many films have been produced that tell the story of the horrors of torture inside Tadmur Prison
One of these films is this film, which documents the testimonies of former Lebanese, Syrian and other detainees
Perhaps you will wonder what is the reason for all this brutality in dealing with detainees...but you will be surprised if I tell you that it is sectarian hatred that drives them to all this sadism and brutality (as we mentioned previously, most of Assad’s jailers are from the Nusayri sect ruling in Syria, including Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad, which constitutes 7 % of the Syrian people)
Finally, I cannot count the horrors and testimonies of detainees and former prisoners in Tadmur Prison, because it is considered ONE OF THE 10 MOST DANGEROUS PRİSONS IN THE WORLD, knowing that it was one of dozens of prisons in Syria during the era of President Assad, Father Hafez, and his son Bashar.
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