Imprisonment by Syria's State Security: Interview

One of the more notorious aspects of the Assad regime was the existence of multiple intelligence agencies that worked at least in part to monitor and suppress real and suspected opposition to the regime. Among these agencies was the Amn al-Dawla ("State Security"), more formally known as the General Intelligence Branch/Directorate.

As it happens, a person I know had been briefly imprisoned by State Security in Damascus at the time of the regime's fall and was among a group of 1500 prisoners freed from the State Security prison by the downfall of the regime. In this conversation he speaks briefly about his experiences. Originally from Idlib province, he currently resides in the al-Sayyida Zaynab area of Damascus (home to a famous Shi'i shrine: see Murtaza Hussain's recent interesting dispatch where he visited the shrine).

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