THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 26, 2025 at 18:32 JST
A photo from the “Syria: Prisons of Despair” series shows a man who says he was subjected to whippings and other forms of torture at Branch 235 of the Military Intelligence Directorate, also known as the Palestine Branch, in Damascus on Dec. 13. (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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