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Tadmor prison is located in Palmyra
Palmyra

Palmyra was in ancient times an important city of central Syria, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 120 km southwest of the Euphrates....
 in the deserts of eastern Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
 approximately 200 kilometers northeast of Damascus
Damascus

Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is List of oldest continuously inhabited cities and its current population is estimated at about 4,000,000....
 (Tadmor, or Tadmur is the Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
 name for Palmyra).

The structures were originally built as military barracks by the French Mandate
French Mandate of Syria

The French Mandate of Syria was a League of Nations Mandate created after the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. During the two years that followed the end of the war in 1918, and according to the Sykes-Picot Agreement which was signed between Britain and France during the war, the British held control of the Ottoman...
 forces and is known for harsh conditions, extensive human rights
Human rights

Human rights refer to the "basic rights and freedom to which all humans are entitled." Examples of rights and freedoms which have come to be commonly thought of as human rights include civil and political rights, such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of speech, and equality before the law; and social, cultural and economic rights, i...
 abuse, torture
Torture

Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is:In addition to state-sponsored torture, individuals or groups may be motivated to inflict torture on others for similar reasons to those of a state; however, the motive for torture can also be for the sadism gratification of the torturer, as was the case in the Moors M...
 and summary executions.

During the 1980s Tadmor prison housed thousands of Syrian prisoners, both political and criminal and it was also the scene of a 1980 massacre of prisoners by Rifaat al-Assad
Rifaat al-Assad

Rifaat al-Assad is the younger brother of the former President of Syria, Hafiz al-Assad, and the uncle of the current President Bashar al-Assad, all of whom come from the minority Alawite Muslim sect....
, after the Syrian branch of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim Brotherhood

The Muslim Brothers is a transnational Sunni Islam movement and the largest political opposition organization in many Arab states, particularly Egypt....
 had attempted to assassinate his brother, president Hafez al-Assad
Hafez al-Assad

Hafez al-Assad was the President of Syria of Syria for three decades. Assad's rule stabilized and consolidated the power of the country's central government after decades of coups and counter-coups....
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Tadmor prison is located in Palmyra
Palmyra

Palmyra was in ancient times an important city of central Syria, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 120 km southwest of the Euphrates....
 in the deserts of eastern Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
 approximately 200 kilometers northeast of Damascus
Damascus

Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is List of oldest continuously inhabited cities and its current population is estimated at about 4,000,000....
 (Tadmor, or Tadmur is the Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
 name for Palmyra).

The structures were originally built as military barracks by the French Mandate
French Mandate of Syria

The French Mandate of Syria was a League of Nations Mandate created after the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. During the two years that followed the end of the war in 1918, and according to the Sykes-Picot Agreement which was signed between Britain and France during the war, the British held control of the Ottoman...
 forces and is known for harsh conditions, extensive human rights
Human rights

Human rights refer to the "basic rights and freedom to which all humans are entitled." Examples of rights and freedoms which have come to be commonly thought of as human rights include civil and political rights, such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of speech, and equality before the law; and social, cultural and economic rights, i...
 abuse, torture
Torture

Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is:In addition to state-sponsored torture, individuals or groups may be motivated to inflict torture on others for similar reasons to those of a state; however, the motive for torture can also be for the sadism gratification of the torturer, as was the case in the Moors M...
 and summary executions.

During the 1980s Tadmor prison housed thousands of Syrian prisoners, both political and criminal and it was also the scene of a 1980 massacre of prisoners by Rifaat al-Assad
Rifaat al-Assad

Rifaat al-Assad is the younger brother of the former President of Syria, Hafiz al-Assad, and the uncle of the current President Bashar al-Assad, all of whom come from the minority Alawite Muslim sect....
, after the Syrian branch of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim Brotherhood

The Muslim Brothers is a transnational Sunni Islam movement and the largest political opposition organization in many Arab states, particularly Egypt....
 had attempted to assassinate his brother, president Hafez al-Assad
Hafez al-Assad

Hafez al-Assad was the President of Syria of Syria for three decades. Assad's rule stabilized and consolidated the power of the country's central government after decades of coups and counter-coups....
. It is estimated that one thousand prisoner were killed in the massacre.

While the feared Mezze prison
Mezze prison

Mezzeh prison is a now-defunct Syria prison overlooking the capital, Damascus. Mezzeh is the name of a neighborhood in western Damascus.Both military and political prisoners were held at Mezze prison, as well as ordinary criminals, and it was a famous symbol of Syrian government repression....
 in Damascus was closed by Bashar al-Assad
Bashar al-Assad

Dr. Bashar al-Assad is the List of Presidents of Syria of the Syria, Regional Secretary of the Baath Party, and the son of former President Hafez al-Assad....
 after he assumed power in 2000, Tadmor prison is still in use.

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  • Hama Massacre
    Hama massacre

    The Hama massacre occurred on February 2, 1982, when the Syrian army bombarded the town of Hama in order to quell a revolt by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood....