A huge crowd gathered in Damascus on Thursday, December 12, to participate in the funeral of a Syrian activist found dead in the Sednaya prison, according to news reports.Footage filmed by Syrian journalist Yamam Al Shaar shows a large crowd of people chanting, marching, and carrying a coffin wrapped in a Syrian flag.Al Shaar told Storyful that the coffin contained the remains of Mazen al-Hamada, the Syrian activist whose body was found in a prison following the fall of the Assad regime.Syrian photographer and director Sakir Khader wrote on X that Hamada became “one of the most important witnesses against Assad’s regime.”According to news reports, Hamada disappeared in early 2020 after returning to Syria from the Netherlands.His body was found in December 2024 inside the infamous Sednaya prison in Syria, according to news reports. Credit: Yamam Al Shaar via Storyful