A Tesco Clubcard has been discovered in Assad’s “human slaughterhouse” as concern grows for Britons that may have been tortured.
The Clubcard, along with an Oyster travel card and Freedom Pass, were found near Damascus at the site of a huge prison complex underneath the Mezzeh military base.
This is one of a few prisons that have been discovered by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham forces since the rebels toppled Assad’s regime.
The dictator used these “butcher rooms” to silence his critics, with many believed to have been tortured, executed and buried in mass graves across the country.
A Clubcard was discovered in the prison
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The loved ones of those missing under Assad’s regime have searched the now-liberated prisons for signs their relatives.
Numerous identification cards were found at the Mezzeh base, as well as the drug Captogan, also called “jihadi fuel” pills, scattered on the ground.
The Tesco Clubcard, Oyster card and Freedom Pass were amongst the items discovered.
This has ignited fears that Britons may have been arrested by the tyrant’s regime and subjected to the horrors of the “human slaughterhouses.”
The owner of the cards appeared to be a London resident.
The majority of IDs found at the military base were Syrian, however there were some international ones.
HTS commander Abu Ahmen said: “We found several IDs from foreigners, British, Italian, and Libyan.”
“Most of the cells were empty, but we found around 100 detainees underneath the airbase, and we suspect there are at least two more prisons underneath the ground.”
Loved ones are looking for their missing relatives
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He said it was a “race against time” to find the prisoners still stuck in underground cells before they “starve to death,” saying that search efforts were limited due to a small team.
Syrian translator Mahmoud told The Sun that foreigners were very important to the regime, explaining that they could be used to negotiate with other countries.
He added that the government tried to keep them secret.
“The regime often hid these foreigners and kept them in special prisons and holding cells,” he said.
Since Assad’s regime fell, prisons across Syria have been liberated, with rebel forces discovering piles of tortured bodies inside the complexes.
In Sednaya Prison, one of Assad’s most notorious institutions, forces discovered a “Book of Death” with 29,000 names of executed inmates as well as a “butcher room”.
Allegedly prisoners were dismembered, melted in acid and cut up in this room.
The horror room was discovered covered in four inches of human faeces and dissolved corpses.
Assad fled Syria as the rebels took over before claiming he was forced into exile in Russia.
Eleven million people have been displaced over the past 13 years by the Syrian civil war.