Inside world's 'hell on Earth' jails with cannibalism, torture and the infamous 'tyre'

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READ MORE: Wealthy Brits locked up in 'hell hole' African prison with 200 dangerous inmatesGitarama Prison, in Rwanda, has been described as a 'literal hell on Earth'. “The guards are brainwashed to thinking that prisoners are sub-human and are allowed to do anything they want to prisoners,” according to one report.Dangerously overcrowded, with fights between prisoners a daily occurrence and reports of cannibalism emerging from its forbidding gates, Gitarama is believed by many to be the world’s worst prison.Before it was destroyed by ISIS militants, though, Tadmor Military Prison, in Palmyra, Syria, might have claimed that dubious honour.

The prison was designed to break inmates’ spirits from the outset.One former detainee told Amnesty International: “The bus arrived at Tadmur Prison where the military police awaited us...

The warders pulled us off the bus, whipping us mercilessly and brutally until we were all out. "They removed the handcuffs and blindfolds, and then we were taken into a courtyard overlooked by prison offices, where our names were registered.

All the while we were being whipped from all sides."They went on to describe being tortured on the Dullab, or “tyre,” where the victim is suspended from a rope and repeatedly beaten with wooden poles.Another torture method routinely used in Tadmor was “the German Chair” (al-Kursi al-Almani).