Rioting occurred in a Northern Syrian prison when the government began releasing common day criminals instead of political prisoners, according to residents.

Another 400 children have been reportedly arrested and tortured in Syrian prisons.

In the Syrian prison, they were sent to separate cells and brutally tortured.

Hundreds of my people are in Syrian prisons where they're tortured by the Mukhabarat, the secret police.

They all languish together with hundreds of other political prisoners still in Syrian prisons.

But after four days in a Syrian prison - tiny cells with no heat and no light - he said he confessed.

Finally, he was shipped off to a Syrian prison.

It also seems that the victims of kidnapping were handed over to Syria and then transferred to Syrian prisons.

I have little doubt that the releases of political prisoners from Syrian prisons were due to the economic clout we exerted at that time.

There have been numerous credible reports of torture in Syrian prisons.