"Finally, a photograph provided some terrible clarity about his fate. An artifact of a brutal state's bureaucracy, the photo showed Mutlaq, in high resolution, naked and bearing signs of torture. His name, in green marker, was scrawled on his stomach, above a bright red bloodstain on his hip. His family's long search had been in vain, the photograph's metadata indicated. Mutlaq had died just months after his arrest."
"The picture is part of a massive trove containing more than 70,000 images taken by Syrian military police photographers who recorded deaths mostly between 2015 and 2024 - years that encompassed the height of the Syrian civil war. Included are those of 10,212 people who died in detention or after they were transferred from detention to military hospitals."
Over 70,000 images taken by Syrian military police photographers document deaths largely between 2015 and 2024. The collection includes images of 10,212 people who died in detention or after transfer to military hospitals. Many corpses show signs of torture, and metadata often include names, dates, and identification marks that enabled relatives to identify victims. Families who searched for missing relatives sometimes found closure when photographs confirmed deaths and circumstances. The trove shows yearly totals with peaks early in the period and represents substantial visual evidence of lethal abuse within the detention system.
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