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Civil Prison in Algiers, Baroque, Ordinary Violence in Colonial Algeria, CHS Publications, Jan 21 2013

Berrouaghia

El Harrach

Lambez Prison

Lambez prison

Physical Violence

Chlef Prison

Anjar Detention Centre used by the Syrian Army since their entry in Lebanon in 1976, Al Jazeera.

Anjar Detention Center

A Lebanese soldier walks through cells at the Beau Rivage Hotel bloc, the former headquarters of the Syrian army intelligence (Mukhabarat), who completed their withdrawal from Beirut on March 16, 2005. Photo by Ramzi Haidar/AFP via Getty Images

Beau Rivage Detention Center

Birds Eye View of Aita el Foukhar detention Center, 1985, Map of Memory, ACT for the Disappeared, 2018.

Aita al-Foukhar Detention Center

Druse Progressive Socialist Party militiamen take cover from sniper fire at Barbir section of museum Green Line crossing between West and East Beirut, during internecine fighting. Photo by Bill Foley/The LIFE Images Collection, May 1, 1985.

Barbir Checkpoint

تصوّرٌ مرئيّ لحاجز البربارة، موقع ليبانون ديبايت (Lebanon Debate)، 28 آب- أغسطس 2018..

Berbara Checkpoint

Image dating back to 2008 claims to show Tadmor Prison with its doors broken open

Palmyra Prison

An aerial view of Saydnaya prison. Photograph: Amnesty

Sednaya Prison

Eye birds view

Mezzeh prison

Branch 215 is a notorious prison run by the Military Intelligence Directorate, where torture and executions are commonplace

Military Intelligence Detention Center (Branch 215)

the locations of detention centers that were identified by multiple witnesses. Using satellite imagery, Human Rights Watch asked the victims and defectors to point out the buildings where torture took place.

Military Intelligence Detention Center- Palestine branch (No.235)

Alqa'ah Alkubra - Sanaa

The destruction created by the shelling

Tall El Zaatar

yemen aldahei taiz

Aldahei - Taiz

Damour Massacre

Front page of Lebanese An-Nahar newspaper on December 7, 1975, published following the Black Saturday Massacre.

Black Saturday Massacre

Central Prison - Sanaa

Central Prison - Sanaa

Destruction caused by bombardment - Sanban - Yemen

Sanban Village

Raiding Queen Boat for obscene behavior, South Florida Gay News, 19 June 2015

The Queen Boat

Al-Mansoura Court of First Instance where mistrials are carried out

Mansura Court of First Instance

Abu Hashem Checkpoint

Al Saleh Building

Asaleh City Building - Taiz

Bab AL-Falaj Checkpoint

Bab al-Falaj Checkpoint

A checkpoint in the Habilin area

Al-Habilin Checkpoint

Lip-sewn detainees at Beir Ahmed Prison

Beir Ahmed Prison

'Mud Prison'

Mud Prison

Al-Qahirah Castle in Taiz before restoration, Arab Yemen Website, 1 August 2016

Al-Qahira/Cairo Castle

Almansoora Prison

Almansoora Prison - Aden

Political Security

Image showing the entrance to the Corniche Castle of Al-Hudaydah, Al-Ain News Website, 25 June 2018

The Ancient Corniche/ Al-Hudaydah Castle

The ancient city of Baraqish in Al-Jawf Governorate, Yemen Today TV Channel, 15 January 2020

Ancient City of Baraqish, Al-Jawf

Zinjibar Museum - destruction of upper part by mortar rounds during storming and looting, This is Aden Website, 24 March 2018

Zinjibar National Museum, Abyan

Tunnels cut in ancient rocks lead to historic city of Baynun, Arab Yemen Website, 6 February 2019

Baynun Museum, Al-Hada, Dhamar

A general picture of the Dhamar Regional Museum prior to its bombing by coalition warplanes, Khabar Agency, 24 May 2015

Dhamar Regional Museum

Part of the destruction of the museum building after bombing, International News Agency, 3 February 2016

Taiz Museum

A general picture of the Military Museum in Aden before destruction, Aden Crater, Al-Ayyam Newspaper Website, 8 November 2017

Military Museum, Aden

After the camp bombing by Houthis

Bani Jaber Refugee Camp in Al-Hudaydah

After the shelling

Society Faculty - Dhamar

Picture of Dr. Saad El-Din Ibrahim behind bars, BBC News, 30 May, 2001

State Security Investigations Service in Nasr City

Talaat Harb Square

Approximate images of the sexual harassment and torture of detainees in Port Fouad Than Police Prison

Port Fouad Second Police Station

Al-Manakh Police Department

Muhammad Mahmud St.

The Cabinet St.

Here is where Daesh brought their victims, Nisan Journal, 28 February 2017

Al-Kafsa

In the aftermath of the massacre, Bilal Al-Musili, 20 July 2017

Pepsi Factory Wall

Dhamar point

The remains of victims of Kojo village to be returned to Sinjar beginning of next February, Kerkuk Now, 20 January 2020

Kocho, Sinjar Massacre

Daesh blows up the historic lighthouse of Sinjar and the city’s houses, Elaph, 23 March 2015

Sinjar Archaeological Lighthouse

Camp Speicher Massacre

Daesh throws 4 people to death off a building in Mosul, Masar Al-Arabiyya, 21 August 2016

(National) Insurance (Company) Building

Rudaw opens a mass grave file in Tal Afar, Rudaw, 13 November 2020

Kasr Mihrab Village

Badush prison, Galgamesh Press, 2 April 2017

Badush Prison Massacre

Satellite image of Chikly Island

Chikly Fort

Recent picture of the facade of Karraka Fort in La Goulette, Tunis

La Goulette Fort, Karraka

Picture of the western gate of the wall and the entrance to the prison

Civil prison of Sousse

Nadour Prison

Nadhour Prison

Ghar Al-Milh Prison

Ghar Al-Milh Prison

Sabbat Ez-Zalam

Sabbat Ez-Zalam

Women's prison in Manouba

Women's prison in Manouba

9 April Prison in Tunisia

Harboub Prison

Harboub Prison

El-Kef Civil Prison, TN24

El-Kef Civil Prison

The first public hearing held by the Truth and Dignity Commission (TDC), at Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia on November 17, 2016. © Eric Goldstein/Human Rights Watch

Ministry of Interior

The Houareb Civil Prison

The Houareb Civil Prison

Shells target areas of Adra Prison and a hospital in the suburbs of Damascus and its outskirts

Damascus Central Prison (Adra Prison)

Aleppo Central Prison

يضمّ سجن حماة المركزي حوالي 1000 معتقل، منهم حوالي 600 معتقلون على خلفية تهم تتعلق بأنشطة مناهضة للنظام

Hama Central Prison

Tazmamart Prison

Castle prison.. hotbed of drunks and vagrants, Hespress, March 10, 2014

Kalaat Magouna Prison

Akziz detainee: a “secret” detainee among a “public detainee”, Hespress, February 25, 2013

Agdz Detention Center

Sekoura

Teknit secret prison, in the province of Zagora

Tagounit

Dar Brisha, Tétouan

Dar Al Makri Prison, Rabat. Rolle Benzaquin, 06/23/2016

Dar El Mokri, Rabat

PRISON DE DERB MOULAY CHERIF - CASABLANCA

Derb Moulay Shrif, Casablanca

حلب.. "أمن الدولة" يسلم 3 سيدات قضوا تحت التعذيب في أقبية المخابرات

State Security, Aleppo

Map showing the locations of detention centers that were identified by multiple witnesses, HRW, JULY 3, 2012

Military Security, Aleppo

Air Force Intelligence in Aleppo

Air Security, Aleppo

Political Security, Aleppo

State Security, Daraa

Military Security, Daraa

Political Security, Daraa

Air Security, Daraa

Aftermath of the explosion in Beirut’s port that devastated the city, killing more than 200 people, injuring more than 6,000, and leaving 300,000 people without shelter, HRW, 4 August 2020.

Beirut Port

Residents of Tripoli and surrounding areas assembled in al-Nour Square to raise the Lebanese flags to the beat of nationalist and patriotic songs, LBC group, Oct 20, 2019.

Al-Nour Square, Tripoli

Martyr Square, Beirut

Prison cells at Khiam Detention Cells whose only light comes through ventilation holes in the ceiling, isolation cells, interrogation rooms and communal cells, The Electronic Intifada, 30 October 2004.

Khiam Detention Center

Dr. Mohamed Akl, "Cosnet", 2021

Hamdan Palace, Baqa al-Gharbiyye - a symbol of feudal oppression

A Fatah movement poster from the Palestinian Digital Archive, Birzeit University

Kafr Qasim entrance, the ‘citizens’ massacre

Saffuriyya, Nazareth District – Displacement, Occupation and Expulsion

Al-Lydd Grand Mosque - May Uprising

Al-Qastal, Jerusalem - Battle of the Fall in 1948

Photo of the abandoned village of Summil

Summil (Gaza)

The Sheikh Munis Cemetery - The university is exhuming and erasing it

Exhibition poster, Justice Commission to Research the Truth about Diyarbakır Prison, 2010, Diyarbakır,

Diyarbakır Prison/Diyarbakır Cezaevi/Girtîgeha Amedê

Madımak Hotel shall become a Museum of Shame, Pir Sultan Abdal Alevi Association, 2019, Sivas.

Madimak Hotel, Sivas

Taksim Square

Ulucanlar Prison

Road 65, Ara, Arara Junction

Ankara Bombing, Moment of explosion (10 October 2015) DW, 22 October 2015

Ankara Station Massacre

Cizre Basement Massacre

Dersim Massacre

A view from Roboski, 23 March 2015, Roboski, AGOS Newspaper.

The Roboski massacre

صورة حديثة لواجهة قلعة الكراكة في حلق الوادي بتونس

الكراكه

إدارة المخابرات الجويّة، درعا

امن الدولة درعا

الامن العسكري درعا

الامن السياسي درعا

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