Sednaya Prison

The United States has evidence the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has built a crematorium at a large military prison outside the capital Damascus, a State Department official said on May 15.

The Syrian government on May 16 denied the accusations.

The United States has evidence the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has built a crematorium at a large military prison outside the capital Damascus, a State Department official said on May 15.

The Syrian government and rebel groups swapped dozens of women prisoners and hostages, some of them with their children, in Hama province on the evening of Feb. 7, a monitor and a rebel official said, according to Reuters. 

As many as 13,000 people were hanged in five years at a notorious Syrian government prison near Damascus, Amnesty International said on Feb. 7, accusing the regime of a "policy of extermination."