From Human Rights Watch:

Syrian authorities should immediately make public the fate of all detainees at Sednaya prison, at least nine of whom are believed to have been killed when military police used lethal force during unrest in the prison last July, Human Rights Watch said today. Syria should also free those who have finished serving their sentences, Human Rights Watch said.

The government has not provided the families of detainees or the public with any information regarding the events at Sednaya or the names of those injured or killed, and it has prevented any contact between the prisoners in Sednaya and their families since that incident. Human Rights Watch urged foreign diplomats visiting Damascus to ask President Bashar al-Asad about the inmates’ fate.

"A whole year has passed, and yet no one knows what has happened to these people," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "The Syrian government should end the anguish of the prisoners’ families, disclose the names of those injured or killed, and immediately grant them access to their loved ones."