Author: Loubna Mrie and Ahmad Zaza

Loubna Mrie is a Syrian activist and photojournalist. She is currently based in New York City, where she is a researcher on Syrian and Middle Eastern affairs and is completing a degree at NYU. Ahmad Zaza is a Syrian journalist based in Istanbul.

Free Syrian Army rebels with captive. Aleppo, 2012.

‘Almost as Bad as the Regime’: Inside Syria’s Rebel-Run Prisons

By Loubna Mrie and Ahmad Zaza
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Civilians and activists once detained by the Syrian government for joining 2011 protests against President Bashar al-Assad are again facing arbitrary detention and torture in secret jails. But this time, their captors are Syria’s hard-line militant groups. (More…)