In Syria, the International Committee of the Red Cross has confirmed it has been granted access to visit detainees at the main prison in the capital of Damascus. The president of the Red Cross, Jakob Kellenberger, announced the news.

Jakob Kellenberger: “We have now started in a large prison in Damascus, and it will take a lot of time, and so we’ll have visit to visit, section after section, as I proceed. So I think I will—I cannot—I think it does not make much sense that I give you now intermediate numbers. In fact, if I understand well, in this prison, as a whole, it has 6,000 persons.”