Lucy Williamson

These electric cables, the guards put them on the prisoner's body and turned on the power. The prisoner loses his mind and confesses everything. The only thing more painful than finding your parent or child among the records here is not finding them at all. In the building next door, we found the mother of Kurdish prisoner Mahmoud Hussein searching for his face among the photos on the floor.

These electric cables, the guards put them on the prisoner's body and turned on the power. The prisoner loses his mind and confesses everything. The only thing more painful than finding your parent or child among the records here is not finding them at all. In the building next door, we found the mother of Kurdish prisoner Mahmoud Hussein searching for his face among the photos on the floor.

He's registered here, but we can't find him, she said. May God burn Assad's heart the way he burnt ours. Assad's regime was meticulous in documenting its brutality, but critical evidence here is being lost every day. The detail of what happened to individuals is often hard to find and the desperation of families is growing.

He's registered here, but we can't find him, she said. May God burn Assad's heart the way he burnt ours. Assad's regime was meticulous in documenting its brutality, but critical evidence here is being lost every day. The detail of what happened to individuals is often hard to find and the desperation of families is growing.