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As Syria’s notorious prisons empty, families search for the missing

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Videos on social media show families streaming toward Sednaya Military Prison , searching for loved ones who had disappeared there.

Rights groups have documented the systematic use of torture, starvation and other forms of lethal abuse by Assad ’s security forces.

Up to 8,000 relatives were combing the cells, as civil defense workers struggled to reach secret chambers farther underground.

Naila Alabbasi has spent 12 years without her sister, Rania , a dentist, dentist and chess champion.

Members of Syria ’s military intelligence arrived at her home in March 2013 , arresting her husband, Abdul Rahman .

The families said their phones were flooded with messages, but none brought solace.