HTS-led rebels who have taken control of Syria said they found at least 40 corpses piled up with obvious signs of torture in the morgue of a hospital near Damascus. “I opened the morgue door with my own hands and it was a horrible sight: around forty bodies were piled up, with signs of terrible torture,” said Mohammed al-Hajj, a fighter for the rebel factions in the south of the country. reached by telephone by AFP in Damascus.
According to local and medical sources, these bodies were transported shortly before the dissolution of the Assad regime last Sunday from the Saydnaya political prison, also near Damascus, to the military hospital in Harasta, on the northern outskirts of the Syrian capital.