Syrians were pasting photos of their missing loved ones, complete with numbers to call, to the monument in Al-Marjeh Square, in Damascus, footage filmed on Monday, December 16, shows.Footage filmed by Obada Jbara shows the monument in Damascus’s Al-Marjeh Square (or “Martyrs’ Square”) covered with photos of missing people and numbers to call.Many of the thousands of people detained during Bashar al-Assad’s regime were freed after its fall. But many remain missing, with relatives looking for them.News reports quoted the observatory saying that almost 60,000 people were tortured and killed in Assad’s prisons during his regime.In 2024 alone, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights recorded the deaths of 700 civilians due to torture and poor health care in Syrian regime prisons and security centers. Credit: Obada Jbara via Storyful