Mohammad Chaeeb spoke softly into his phone, telling a relative the grim news: He found his brother at the morgue.“I saw him and said my goodbyes,” he said. His gaze lingered on the blackened body of Sami Chaeeb, whose teeth were bared and whose eye sockets were empty. It looked as if he had died screaming. “He doesn’t look normal. He doesn’t even have eyes.”The dead man was jailed five months ago, disappearing into a dark prison system under th…

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Syrians flock to morgues looking for loved ones who perished in Assad's prisons

Many bodies have been found in Syrian detention centers and prisons since President Bashar al-Assad's government fell

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DAMASCUS (Reuters) -     Using only the light on their mobile phones, wailing men and women examined disfigured bodies lying in a darkened hospital morgue in Syria's capital for signs of their relatives who had disappeared into Bashar al-Assad's notorious prison system. Read full story

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Syrians scour disfigured corpses for signs of detained loved ones

DAMASCUS - Using only the light on their mobile phones, wailing men and women examined disfigured bodies lying in a darkened hospital morgue in Syria's capital for signs of their relatives who had disappeared into Bashar al-Assad's notorious prison system.

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Mohammad Chaeeb spoke in a low tone over the phone, telling a family member the grim news: he had found his brother in the morgue.

Mohammad Chaeeb hablaba en tono bajo por teléfono, comunicando a un familiar la sombría noticia: había encontrado a su hermano en la morgue.

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Syrians flock to morgues looking for their deceased loved ones in Assad jails

Across Damascus, there's a desperate search for the missing, with family members looking through the morgues themselves in the hope - and fear - of finding their loved ones.

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Desperate families look through body bags in search for loved ones in Syrian morgues

Muhammad Halaf, a resident of Hama province, tells Anadolu he has not heard from his brother since 2014 - Anadolu Ajansı

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Syrians attempt to identify their loved ones’ bodies after fall of Assad regime

DAMASCUS (AP) — Mohammad Chaeeb spoke softly into his phone, telling a relative the grim news: He found his brother at the morgue. “I saw him and said my goodbyes,” he said.

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'We can't tell who is who': Syrians scour disfigured corpses for signs of detained loved ones

Syrians flock to morgues looking for loved ones who perished in Assad's prisons

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