Interesting article about a notorious prison in the city of Palmyra.
Palmyra also famous for its brutal prison
Prison gained a reputation for horror designed to inflict ‘maximum suffering, humiliation and fear’
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TOP An aerial view taken on January 13, 2009 shows a part of the ancient city of Palmyra. Islamic State group jihadists seized Syria's Palmyra on Thursday, as UNESCO warned that the destruction of the ancient city would be "an enormous loss to humanity". The capture of Palmyra, a 2,000-year-old metropolis, reportedly leaves more than half of Syria under IS control and comes days after the group also expanded its control in Iraq.
PUBLISHED: 03:58 MAY 30, 2015

BY: ADAM TAYLOR, WASHINGTON POST
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Washington: Daesh’s capture of the Syrian city of Palmyra has caused an international outcry. Around the world, people are deeply concerned about the pre-Islamic, Roman-era treasures located near the city, and there are deep fears about what Daesh might do to one of Syria’s most important archeological sites.
But Palmyra’s ancient ruins aren’t the only site of historical importance in the area. There’s another piece of history nearby, though it is far more modern: a prison considered one of the most brutal places in Syria.
Tadmur prison was originally built as military barracks for the French mandate forces in the 1930s. It became a military prison as Syria gained independence. In the late 1970s, large numbers of political prisoners began to be housed in the facility, and Tadmur gained a reputation for horror that bordered on legendary. Things were so bad that the prison even developed its own literature sub-genre, with those who made it out writing about their time in the prison, much like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about the Soviet Union’s gulags.
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