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

Anjar Detention Center

Lebanon
1976 - 2005
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
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
Central Prison - Sanaa

Central Prison - Sanaa

Yemen
1993
Almansoora Prison

Almansoora Prison - Aden

Yemen
1980

Political Security

Yemen
1978 - 2011
Picture of Dr. Saad El-Din Ibrahim behind bars, BBC News, 30 May, 2001

State Security Investigations Service in Nasr City

Egypt
2000
Satellite image of Chikly Island

Chikly Fort

Tunisia
1993
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
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
Women's prison in Manouba

Women's prison in Manouba

Tunisia
1960

9 April Prison in Tunisia

Tunisia
1964
Harboub Prison

Harboub Prison

Tunisia
1964
El-Kef Civil Prison, TN24

El-Kef Civil Prison

Tunisia
1964

Tazmamart Prison

Morocco
1973
Castle prison.. hotbed of drunks and vagrants, Hespress, March 10, 2014

Kalaat Magouna Prison

Morocco
1980 - 1991
Akziz detainee: a “secret” detainee among a “public detainee”, Hespress, February 25, 2013

Agdz Detention Center

Morocco
1976 - 1991
Teknit secret prison, in the province of Zagora

Tagounit

Morocco
1971
حلب.. "أمن الدولة" يسلم 3 سيدات قضوا تحت التعذيب في أقبية المخابرات

State Security, Aleppo

Syria
1971
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
صورة حديثة لواجهة قلعة الكراكة في حلق الوادي بتونس

الكراكه

تونس
1962

امن الدولة درعا

سوريا
1993

الامن العسكري درعا

سوريا
1970

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