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

Israel
1947
Physical Violence

Chlef Prison

Algeria
1948
Dr. Mohamed Akl, "Cosnet", 2021

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

Israel
1948

Saffuriyya, Nazareth District – Displacement, Occupation and Expulsion

Israel
1948

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

Israel
1948
Women's prison in Manouba

Women's prison in Manouba

Tunisia
1960

Taksim Square

Turkey
1960
Recent picture of the facade of Karraka Fort in La Goulette, Tunis

La Goulette Fort, Karraka

Tunisia
1962
Picture of the western gate of the wall and the entrance to the prison

Civil prison of Sousse

Tunisia
1962
صورة حديثة لواجهة قلعة الكراكة في حلق الوادي بتونس

الكراكه

تونس
1962
Nadour Prison

Nadhour Prison

Tunisia
1964 - 2012
Ghar Al-Milh Prison

Ghar Al-Milh Prison

Tunisia
1964
Sabbat Ez-Zalam

Sabbat Ez-Zalam

Tunisia
1964

9 April Prison in Tunisia

Tunisia
1964
Harboub Prison

Harboub Prison

Tunisia
1964
El-Kef Civil Prison, TN24

El-Kef Civil Prison

Tunisia
1964

الامن العسكري درعا

سوريا
1970
Image dating back to 2008 claims to show Tadmor Prison with its doors broken open

Palmyra Prison

Syria
1980
Almansoora Prison

Almansoora Prison - Aden

Yemen
1980
Castle prison.. hotbed of drunks and vagrants, Hespress, March 10, 2014

Kalaat Magouna Prison

Morocco
1980 - 1991
Exhibition poster, Justice Commission to Research the Truth about Diyarbakır Prison, 2010, Diyarbakır,

Diyarbakır Prison/Diyarbakır Cezaevi/Girtîgeha Amedê

Turkey
1980

Sekoura

Morocco
1983 - 1991
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
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

الامن السياسي درعا

سوريا
1988

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