Fox’s Trey Yingst Reports On Horrors of Assad’s Torture Chambers: ‘Hell On Earth Is An Understatement’
Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst reported on Thursday from the Syrian city of Damascus where hundreds of families are desperately searching for families “disappeared” by the fallen regime of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Assad fled Syria as rebel forces closed in on Damascus and overthrew his regime. Left behind in his wake are families desperately searching for loved ones that Assad’s brutal regime imprisoned, facing conditions Yingst said even the phrase “hell of Earth” would not properly describe.
Yingst reported from the infamous Sednaya prison, which is close to Damascus. Enemies of the Assad regime were thrown into the “labyrinth” prison and their families were given no information about their whereabouts. Yingst followed families as they desperately searched the concrete hallways for anyone left behind.
“To call Sednaya hell on Earth would not do it justice. The English language lacks the word to describe these unimaginable conditions. Crumbling concrete walls are hidden beyond large steel doors. Each space tells a gruesome story of its own,” Yingst reported.
“‘Hell on Earth’ is an understatement,” the reporter similarly wrote on X later when sharing his report.
One mother could be seen crying in the street, saying her son was taken while he was attending college.
“God willing, Bashar al-Assad will have the same heartache he has caused us… Him and every single jailer who tortured innocents,” she said.
Another mother said her two sons were taken from her.
“My heart was burning. I didn’t know where they went to,” she said.
Yingst noted thousands of citizens have been “disappeared” under the Assad regime.
The Syrian prison is massive and contains hidden passageways and long, winding concrete hallways, making it difficult to navigate and even more difficult to know if prisoners are still hidden somewhere inside. Some rooms, Yingst showed, were filled to the ceiling with clothes that prisoners had been stripped of upon being forced to enter.
A man identifying himself as Travis Timmerman from Missouri was already found this week locked in a cell after the rebel uprising as forces desperately searched through Assad’s prisons.
“This prison is just a concrete labyrinth,” Yingst reported from inside Sednaya. “People are looking all over, trying to find any sort of secret passages or doors where they might be able to find their loved ones, but you see and hear there are just rooms full of clothes, shoes, and other items that belonged to these prisoners. They were stripped of everything they had when they arrived here at this prison on the outskirts of Damascus.”
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