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Tadmor prison (Arabic: سجن تدمر) is located in Tadmur in the deserts of eastern Syria approximately 200 kilometers northeast of Damascus (Tadmor or Tadmur is the Arabic name for Palmyra).The structures were originally built as military barracks by the French Mandate forces.Tadmor prison was known for harsh conditions extensive human rights abuse torture and summary executions.During the 1980s Tadmor prison housed thousands of Syrian prisoners both political and criminal and it was also the scene of the June 27 1980 Tadmor Prison massacre of prisoners by Rifaat al-Assad the day after the Syrian branch of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood failed in an attempt to assassinate his brother president Hafez al-Assad.