内容摘要：With the inquiry ongoing none of the agencies are currently commenting.

With the inquiry ongoing none of the agencies are currently commenting.

Housed beneath the White Building is what those speaking to Amnesty called an "execution room", where detainees in the Red Building would be transported to be hanged.A former guard said that a list of those to be executed from the Red Building would arrive at lunchtime. Troops would then take those marked for death to a basement holding cell - which could sometimes contain up to 100 people - where they were subjected to beatings.

Prisoners who spoke to Amnesty said detainees in the Red Building were typically "transferred" from the building in the dead of night - usually between midnight and 03:00.Blindfolded detainees were then led down a flight of stairs into the "execution room" in the south-east section of the White Building, before being led up onto a one metre-high platform with 10 nooses from which they were hanged.According to Amnesty, in 2012 the room was expanded, with a second platform with 20 more nooses. In footage shared by rebel-affiliated media after the fall of the regime, fighters displayed dozens of nooses they found in rooms around Saydnaya.

It is estimated by rights groups that more than 30,000 detainees had either been executed or died as a result of torture, lack of medical care or starvation between 2011 and 2018. Citing accounts from the few released inmates, at least another 500 detainees had been executed between 2018 and 2021, the Association of the Missing and Detainees in Saydnaya Prison (AMDSP) said in 2022.In 2017, the US State Department

on the site to dispose of the remains of murdered prisoners. In the images below, a small wing can be seen adjoining the White Building.

A State Department spokesperson said officials had built the facility as part of "an effort to cover up the extent of mass murders taking place in Saydnaya prison".He added that the damage occurred either on Friday night or the early hours of Saturday morning.

"In all the years these events have taken place, this is the first time such deliberate vandalism has occurred," he said.Anyone with relevant information about the vandalism has been urged to contact police.

Sixty eight dolphin sculptures will eventually be placed around the island, which people will be able to track down via an app.The founder of a charity for vulnerable people has said she is "very cross" that its van containing "a few hundreds pounds worth" of gardening tools was stolen.