Syria’s war: Families of detainees wait for closure

Thousands of people are still detained or have been forcibly disappeared by the government since 2011.

It has been a week since the United States imposed its toughest sanctions yet on Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and his allies.

Central to those sanctions was evidence that Syrian prisoners have been tortured.

But activists say the US action falls short of delivering justice.

Al Jazeera’s Priyanka Gupta reports.

By Priyanka Gupta