The official, Akram Salloum al-Abdullah, is accused of executing detainees, and other ‘serious violations’.

Syrian authorities have said they had arrested a former military official accused of executing detainees at the notorious Sednaya prison during the rule of former President Bashar al-Assad.

In a statement on Wednesday, the interior ministry said the Damascus province’s counterterrorism branch arrested Major

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