Egypt’s Badr 3 and New Valley prisons embody a brutal system of political repression, marked by hunger strikes, torture, and the systematic denial of basic rights.

Although the new Syrian state has announced practical steps to address the situation of Syrian detainees in the notorious Roumieh prison east of Beirut, conditions appear to be steadily worsening.

With Assad's prisons crumbling, Egypt now stands as the region's largest detention center, holding the highest number of detainees, surpassing even the Palestinians in Israeli prisons.

Saydnaya was a demonic creation of Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar, equipped with torture tools so horrific they seemed unimaginable, used by the Assad regime to torment and suppress Syrians.

Syrian and Palestinian refugees detained in Libya's Zuwarah detention center have called on the UN and human rights groups for "urgent intervention" to escape the harsh conditions in the prison.