As families desperately scoured the filthy cells of Syria's forbidding Sednaya prison on Monday (December 9) for any sign of long-detained relatives after its gates were flung open by rebels, hope for finding missing loved ones began to fade.
Thousands of prisoners spilled out of president Bashar al-Assad's pitiless detention system after he was toppled on Sunday (December 8), sometimes to tearful reunions with relatives who believed they had been executed years earlier.
But countless families were still trawling dark corridors and hidden cells in the labyrinthine complex for a trace of loved ones detained for attending protests, defying authorities or simply voicing discontent.
Rumors spread on Sunday that thousands more inmates were still imprisoned in underground cells that could not be reached.
The White Helmets rescue organization, which for years has dug through fallen buildings after air strikes, deployed a team.
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