134,000 images and documents are included in the leak "Damascus dossier", which is revealed by, among others, Uppdrag granskning, SVT Nyheter, the international journalist network ICIJ and the German television channel NDR.
The leak contains evidence of the Assad regime's violence against people who were arrested, imprisoned and disappeared in connection with the Arab Spring of 2011.
The leak includes photographs of victims and death certificates. According to an analysis conducted by ICIJ, NDR and the German Süddeutsche Zeitung, three-quarters of the victims in the images show signs of starvation. Nearly two-thirds show signs of physical injury.
Almost half of the dead were lying naked on floors or metal surfaces.
Searched for 13 years
Until December last year, when the regime was overthrown and Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, the images were stored on a hard drive in a safe in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
Now many Syrians are getting answers about what happened to their missing relatives.
Thaer al-Najjar and his family have been searching for their brother Imad for 13 years. Now he has Imad's death certificate from August 2012 in his hands. He died ten days after the regime's raid on his parents' home.
“Looked at the walls”
Thaer al-Najjar has gone several times to the prison where thousands of prisoners have been killed by the regime, to look for Imad.
"We went to the cells in there," he tells ICIJ .
Imad was a painter and he used to paint on the walls, so we looked at the walls in the hope that we could find one of his paintings.
Until the fall of the Assad regime, there was still hope that the brother was alive, but since he still had not been found after the fall of the regime a year ago, the family had given up hope.
The murder of Imad is just one of over 10,000 documented in the leaked documents.
