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

Diyarbakır Prison/Diyarbakır Cezaevi/Girtîgeha Amedê

Turkey
1980
Madımak Hotel shall become a Museum of Shame, Pir Sultan Abdal Alevi Association, 2019, Sivas.

Madimak Hotel, Sivas

Turkey
1993

Taksim Square

Turkey
1960

Ulucanlar Prison

Turkey
1925 - 2006
Ankara Bombing, Moment of explosion (10 October 2015) DW, 22 October 2015

Ankara Station Massacre

Turkey
2015

Cizre Basement Massacre

Turkey
2013

Dersim Massacre

Turkey
1937 - 1938
A view from Roboski, 23 March 2015, Roboski, AGOS Newspaper.

The Roboski massacre

Turkey
2011

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