As you walk through the cold, dark cells of Assad's prisons, the graffiti on the walls cry out. They plead to God and yearn for loved ones. Often mysterious, they preserve fragments of what anonymous ...

Cartoon faces, a joint of hashish ... AP Photo The graffiti stand as evidence of the atrocities committed in Assad's prisons, providing a sobering reminder of the human cost of Syria's conflict.

As you walk through the cold, dark cells of Assad’s prisons ... Some drawings are even playful, like googly-eye cartoon faces or a joint of hashish. Others are flights of fancy whose meaning ...

Paintings, cartoons, brooches... Items from the former Prime Minister’s personal collection can fetch thousands ...

As you walk through the cold, dark cells of Assad’s prisons, the graffiti on the walls whisper ... Some drawings are even playful, like googly-eye cartoon faces or a joint of hashish. Others are ...

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His crime? Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi had just been defenestrated after 42 years in power, and Farzat had published a cartoon in a local publication depicting then Syria president Bashar ...

More than a month after the prisons were opened by insurgents who ousted Assad in December, The Associated Press toured ... Some drawings are even playful, like googly-eye cartoon faces or a joint of ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk outside a morgue in Damascus. Her head wrapped in a scarf, she rocked back ...