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 General Akram Salloum al-Abdullah.

It said he had held “several positions, most notably as Commander of the Military Police at the defence ministry between 2014 and 2015, during the rule of the former regime”.

The ministry stated that Abdullah was “implicated in committing serious violations against detainees in Sednaya prison”, accusing him of being “directly responsible for carrying out the executions of detainees inside Sednaya military prison … during his tenure as commander of

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