2024-12-10
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Hello, I'm Asde Moshiri from the BBC World Service.
This is the global story.
Crowds gathered in the Syrian capital Damascus, celebrating the fall of Bashar Al Assad and the shocking end his family's 50 year rule.
Our country is free now.
Since the start of the civil war, hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been held in the former regime's secretive prisons.
My cousin, my son, my family.
All prisons that came to represent the brutality of Assad's rule.
Some detainees were executed, others were held for years until now.
Today we look inside these prisons, exposing the worst of the Assad regime.
With me today is our Middle east editor, Sebastian Usher.
Sebastian.
Hai.
Hi.
Now, Sebastian, as the rebels have been traveling through the country, gaining more territory, they've also been passing through Assad's prisons.
What happens when they get there?
I mean, it was one of the patterns of the way that the Islamists led movement from Idlib in the northwest.
This lightning advance just took 10 days to topple President Assad.