THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 26, 2025 at 18:32 JST
A photo from the “Syria: Prisons of Despair” series shows an underground solitary cell at Branch 251 of the General Intelligence Directorate, also known as the al-Khatib Branch, in Damascus on Dec. 15. Torture is said to have been carried out here, and walls bear inscriptions including tally marks counting the days. (Hikaru Uchida)
The Asahi Shimbun was selected for the 2025 Tokyo Press Photographers Association Award based on the newspaper’s body of work revealing the secret detention facilities that underpinned the Assad regime’s reign of terror in Syria. [Read More]
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