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When a Syrian prison guard tossed him into a dimly-lit room, the inmate Abdo was surprised to find himself standing ankle-deep in what appeared to be salt.
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The true extent of horrors inflicted on prisoners by the Syrian regime is beginning to be brought to light with an upcoming report by the Association of Detainees and the Missing in Sednaya Prison detailing the use of 'salt rooms'.
Salt rooms are primitive mortuaries designed to preserve bodies in the absence of refrigerated morgues.