Images shared by accounts on Facebook were in fact recently discovered to be taken from the exhibition area of the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City.
The attention-grabbing photo was posted by a Facebook account on December 9, 2024, one day after opposition fighters opened Syria’s Saydnaya prison and was widely shared following the fall of the government. Former President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
In the photo, an individual is chained in a cell, with a caption in the Bengali language that reads “Mirror Prison in Syria”. This is the phrase used to call Bangladesh’s Aynaghar prison. The nickname “mirror prison” is used to describe the fact that prisoners here never meet other people because they are kept in solitary confinement.
However, the photo shared was in fact not taken inside a Syrian prison, but was part of an exhibition at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, specifically recreating the scene of prisoners being tortured. tortured in the “tiger cage” in Con Dao prison.
AFP news agency discovered the “photo borrowing” incident and reported the truth on January 2.
The museum on Vo Van Tan Street, District 3 has a display area about “Prison Regime”, which recreates a part of Con Dao prison, built by France in 1862 to detain prisoners considered dangerous. dangerous to colonialism.
As of 1975, Con Dao prison was estimated to have held 200,000 prisoners, of whom about 20,000 died.
The most notorious place in Con Dao prison is the “tiger cage”, specialized in detaining and torturing high-ranking political prisoners.
