'How I'm still alive': Surviving Assad's prison cells

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/01/alive-surviving-assad-prison-cells [login to see] 48985.html
An interesting story about one young Syrian man's torture and survival.
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Torture and death became normal. "A lot of people were being raped and killed themselves as a result. It is horrible, but it became something normal," Shogre said. "The person who was being raped was only a body for us, just like all the people who were being killed and tortured."

Sednaya would be Shogre's final prison, and the worst. His "welcome party" on August 15, 2014, involved a beating with tank tracks. He grimaces as he remembers it: "There were 10 of us in a row and [an officer] started to hit us, one after the other. For 15 days, I could not open my eyes or get up."