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Footage shows people emerging from Assad's notorious prisons

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Footage shows prisoners being freed from Syria 's most notorious military prison, Saydnaya , after rebels took control of the country.

Among those pictured were women including a mother with a young child, who appeared leaving their cell as rebels sought to break the locks on other cells holding dozens more women, in a clip posted by the Turkey -based Association of Detainees and The Missing in Sednaya Prison ( ADMSP ) ADMSP said more than 30,000 detainees had either been executed or died as a result of torture or starvation between 2011 and 2018 .