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Distro - Sednaya Prison 

Moises Saman 

On assignment for the New Yorker, Moises Saman documented the search for relatives by Syrian families in the Sednaya prison in December 2024, two days after the fall of the Assad regime.

Over the past twenty years, New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson and Moises Saman have covered a range of conflicts together. After the fall of the dictatorships in Iraq and Libya, they uncovered significant evidence of their brutality. However, Assad's actions appear to have been particularly brutal. In 2012, as Syria descended into violence, Moises and Jon traveled to Aleppo with a group of insurgent rebels and... 

Moises Saman 2024

SYRIA. Sednaya. 11 December, 2024. Families with missing relatives... 

Moises Saman 2024

SYRIA. Sednaya. 11 December, 2024. Families with missing relatives... 

Moises Saman 2024

SYRIA. Sednaya. 11 December, 2024. Families with missing relatives... 

Moises Saman 2024

SYRIA. Sednaya. 11 December, 2024. Families with missing relatives... 

Moises Saman 2024

SYRIA. Sednaya. 11 December, 2024. Families with missing relatives... 

Moises Saman 2024

SYRIA. Sednaya. 11 December, 2024. Families with missing relatives... 

Moises Saman 2024

SYRIA. Sednaya. 11 December, 2024. Prosthetic legs left behind... 

Moises Saman 2024

SYRIA. Sednaya. 11 December, 2024. Clothing left behind by freed... 

Moises Saman 2024

SYRIA. Sednaya. 11 December, 2024. Guided by the smell of dead... 

Moises Saman 2024

SYRIA. Sednaya. 11 December, 2024. Families with missing relatives... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. December 12, 2024.

A torn poster on a street... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. December 12, 2024.

Majjida Kaddo (center) stands... 

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SYRIA. Homs. December 14, 2024.

An internally displaced Syrian... 

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Sednaya, Syria. December 16, 2024.

Sednaya Prison, located north... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. december 16, 2024.

The family of Mazen Hamada... 

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SYRIA. Douma. December 18, 2024.

Young men waiting for bread... 

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SYRIA. Daraa. Izra. December 19, 2024.

Dozens of bodies, recovered... 

Moises Saman 2024

SYRIA. Homs. December 15, 2024.

In the shadow of crumbling buildings,... 

Moises Saman 2024

SYRIA. Damascus. December 17, 2024.

An empty mass grave, its... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. December 18, 2024.

In the basement of the Mezzeh... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. December 12, 2024.

Hundreds of mourners march... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. December 12, 2024.

Inside an office of the... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. December 13, 2024.

Jobar, an ancient district... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. December 13, 2024.

A crude tool once used to... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. December 13, 2024.

Cars drive through the rubble-strewn... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. December 13, 2024.

People gather in the courtyard... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. December 16, 2024.

Deep within the basement... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. December 16, 2024.

A pair of rusted handcuffs... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. December 16, 2024.

Tasmeen Khalid, 15, holds... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. December 16, 2024.

The shattered remains of... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. December 18, 2024.

The Faces of the Forgotten:... 

Moises Saman 2024

SYRIA. Damascus. December 18, 2024.

Faint, smudged marks of... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. December 18, 2024.

Motasem Kattan stands in... 

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SYRIA. Damascus. December 18, 2024.

The Palestine Branch building... 

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SYRIA. Daraa. December 19, 2024.

Local rebel fighters aligned... 
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