Sednaya Prison

Sednaya Prison, also known as the "Human Slaughterhouse", was a Syrian military prison and death camp that the Assad regime operated near from 1986 until the 2024 Syrian opposition offensives.
Wikipedia
  • Prison
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,321 metres (4,334 feet)
  • Description: Syrian military jail, near Damascus
  • Also known as
    “Saydnaya Prison”
    “Sednaya military prison”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Aqua Fresca.
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is a water park, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Sednaya Prison.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saidnaya and Al-Tall.
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, also transliterated as Saydnaya, Seidnaya… is situated 5 km northeast of Sednaya Prison.
is a city in southern , administratively… is situated 6 km south of Sednaya Prison.
Dahiyat AlSham is a suburb in southern … is situated 10 km south of Sednaya Prison.

Sednaya Prison

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Latitude
33.66474° or 33° 39′ 53″ north
Longitude
36.32978° or 36° 19′ 47″ east
Open location code
8G5RM87H+VW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 144825512
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­prison
Geo­Names ID
11467734
Wiki­data ID
Q12215498

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Sednaya Prison” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سجن صيدنايا”
  • Armenian: “Սեյդնայայի բանտ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sednaya həbsxanası”
  • Belarusian: “Сэдная”
  • Bengali: “সেদনায়া কারাগার”
  • Breton: “Toull-bac’h Saidnaya”
  • Catalan: “presó de Sednaya”
  • Catalan: “Presó de Sednaya”
  • Central Kurdish: “زیندانی سەیدنایە”
  • Chinese: “赛德纳亚监狱”
  • Czech: “Věznice Sajdnájá”
  • Danish: “Saidnayafængslet”
  • Dutch: “Sednayagevangenis”
  • Esperanto: “malliberejo Sednaja”
  • Finnish: “Saidnayan vankila”
  • French: “prison de Saidnaya”
  • French: “Prison de Saidnaya”
  • French: “prison militaire de Saidnaya”
  • German: “Gefängnis Saidnaya”
  • German: “Militärgefängnis Saidnaya”
  • Hebrew: “כלא סיידנאיא”
  • Hebrew: “כלא סיידנאייא”
  • Ido: “Karcero di Sednaya”
  • Indonesian: “Penjara Sednaya”
  • Japanese: “サイドナヤ刑務所”
  • Korean: “세드나야 교도소”
  • Kurdish: “Girtîgeha Sêdnayayê”
  • Kurdish: “Zîndana Seydnayayê”
  • Lithuanian: “Saidnajos kalėjimas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Saidnayafengselet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saidnayafengselet”
  • Norwegian: “Saidnayafengselet”
  • Persian: “زندان صیدنایا”
  • Polish: “Więzienie w Sajdnaja”
  • Portuguese: “Prisão de Sednaya”
  • Pushto: “صیدنایا زندان”
  • Russian: “тюрьма Сайданайи”
  • Russian: “Тюрьма Седная”
  • Russian: “Человеческая бойня”
  • Spanish: “Prisión de Saydnaya”
  • Spanish: “Prisión de Sednaya”
  • Spanish: “Prisión militar de Saydnaya”
  • Swedish: “Saidnayafängelset”
  • Swedish: “Saydnayafängelset”
  • Swiss German: “Gefängnis Saidnaya”
  • Swiss German: “Militärgefängnis Saidnaya”
  • Turkish: “Sednaya askerî hapishanesi”
  • Turkish: “Sednaya Hapishanesi”
  • Ukrainian: “В’язниця Седная”
  • Ukrainian: “Тюрма Седная”
  • Urdu: “صیدنایا جیل”
  • Urdu: “صیدنایا قید خانہ”

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