内容摘要：He speaks from maternity ward 11, where his team has been working for the past few months.

He speaks from maternity ward 11, where his team has been working for the past few months.

The disarray of the records looks as if someone tried to destroy what was done here in the name of Bashar al-Assad's Syria. When dictators and their henchmen fall, making sure they don't take the truth with them is a big part of a better future.A musician called Safana Bakleh gave her group of volunteers face masks and blue nitrile gloves along with instructions about photographing and collecting documents.

Safana admitted they were amateurs and said they were taking matters into their own hands because the international human rights groups were not there, and evidence and documents were disappearing."Even if one family gets one answer that their loved on is not here anymore is deceased or he died in the hospital it is enough for me" Safana told me. "It is very chaotic... Where are the international originations supposed to be documenting all this chaos?"It is not just about families getting some release through at least knowing what happened to the disappeared. One day there might be trials of the perpetrators. Documents are evidence.

The truth the volunteers uncovered with their own eyes shocked them. All Syrians knew that the prisons were bad, but Saydnaya was much worse than they expected. Widad Halabi, one of the volunteers, took off her face mask and broke down in tears after an hour or so looking for evidence in the cell blocks."What I've seen here is a life not fit for humans. I imagined how they lived, their clothes. How did they breathe? How did they eat? How did they feel?

"It's terrible… terrible. There are bags of urine on the floor. They couldn't go to the toilet, so they had to put urine in bags. The smell. There's no sun or light. I can't believe people were living here when we were living and breathing our normal lives."

It will be hard for Syrians and their new rulers to track down the people they want to punish. Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia with his family. His brother Maher, with a reputation for violence and corruption as bad as anyone in his extended family, is thought to be in Iraq.He was arrested after he approached her again while she was working at the gate on 19 October, making "vile racist slurs and subjecting her to a barrage of racist abuse," the force said.

Halliday, of no fixed address, was jailed for three months at Hull Magistrates' Court on 23 April after pleading guilty to racially aggravated harassment and threatening behaviour.He was also issued with a two-year restraining order, which prevents him from contacting the victim and limits his access to the rail network.

PC Jack Davie said: "Halliday waged a personal vendetta against an innocent woman who was just doing her job, subjecting her to horrific racial abuse."His prolonged racist behaviour over a period of a year wore the victim down and affected her so badly she was forced to take leave from work."