Leader of Islamist rebels that ousted Assad says people should ‘express their joy’ after Friday prayers

Aya Majzoub, Amnesty International’s deputy regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, has described a visit to the Assad regime’s security and intelligence branches in Damascus.

Here’s what she wrote on social media:

For years, survivors had described the horrors they experienced in these underground dungeons. But nothing could have prepared us for what we saw.

These underground labyrinths are literally hell on earth. They were overcrowded, crawling with cockroaches and other insects, lacked ventilation. They still smell of blood and death.”