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

Berrouaghia

Algeria
1914

El Harrach

Algeria
Lambez Prison

Lambez prison

Algeria
Physical Violence

Chlef Prison

Algeria
1948
Anjar Detention Centre used by the Syrian Army since their entry in Lebanon in 1976, Al Jazeera.

Anjar Detention Center

Lebanon
1976 - 2005
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

Lebanon
1987 - 2005
Birds Eye View of Aita el Foukhar detention Center, 1985, Map of Memory, ACT for the Disappeared, 2018.

Aita al-Foukhar Detention Center

Lebanon
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

Lebanon
1975
تصوّرٌ مرئيّ لحاجز البربارة، موقع ليبانون ديبايت (Lebanon Debate)، 28 آب- أغسطس 2018..

Berbara Checkpoint

Lebanon
1979
Image dating back to 2008 claims to show Tadmor Prison with its doors broken open

Palmyra Prison

Syria
1980
An aerial view of Saydnaya prison. Photograph: Amnesty

Sednaya Prison 

Syria
2011
Eye birds view

Mezzeh prison 

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

Military Intelligence Detention Center (Branch 215)

Syria
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)

Syria
2011
The destruction created by the shelling

Tall El Zaatar

Lebanon
1976 - 1976

Damour Massacre

Lebanon
1976
Front page of Lebanese An-Nahar newspaper on December 7, 1975, published following the Black Saturday Massacre.

Black Saturday Massacre

Lebanon
1975
Shells target areas of Adra Prison and a hospital in the suburbs of Damascus and its outskirts

Damascus Central Prison (Adra Prison)

Syria

Aleppo Central Prison

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

Hama Central Prison

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

State Security, Aleppo

Syria
1971
Map showing the locations of detention centers that were identified by multiple witnesses, HRW, JULY 3, 2012

Military Security, Aleppo

Syria
Air Force Intelligence in Aleppo

Air Security, Aleppo

Syria
2005

Political Security, Aleppo

Syria

State Security, Daraa

Syria

Military Security, Daraa

Syria

Political Security, Daraa

Syria

Air Security, Daraa

Syria
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

Lebanon
2020
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

Lebanon
2019

Martyr Square, Beirut

Lebanon
2019
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

Lebanon
1985

إدارة المخابرات الجويّة، درعا

سوريا

امن الدولة درعا

سوريا
1993

الامن العسكري درعا

سوريا
1970

الامن السياسي درعا

سوريا
1988

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