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Syria's Sednaya prison is the main centre used by the regime for the detention and enforced disappearance of political prisoners. Primitive mortuaries designed to preserve bodies in the absence of refrigerated morgues – so-called "salt rooms" – were also used to inflict psychological abuse there. These rooms are described in detail for the first time in an upcoming report from the Association of Detainees and the Missing in Sednaya Prison, an organisation that seeks justice for former detainees.
