Tora Prison (Egyptian Arabic: سجن طرهSegn Tora; Egyptian Arabic pronunciation:[seɡntˤurˤɑ]) is an Egyptian prison complex for criminal and political detainees, located in Tora, Egypt. The complex is situated in front of the Tora El Balad metro station. The main buildings in the Tora Prison complex are Tora Agricultural Prison, Tora Liman (maximum security), Tora Istiqbal (reception), Tora El Mahkoum and Tora Supermax prison, also known as Scorpion Prison (Arabic: سجن العقربSegn El ʿAqrab).[1]
^Middle East Watch (Organization) (1993). Prison Conditions in Egypt. Human Rights Watch. ISBN 9781564320902.
The Al-Aqrab Prison (Arabic: سجن العقرب, lit. 'The Scorpion Prison'; official name ToraPrison 992 Maximum-Security) is a supermax prison in Helwan, Egypt...
(Cairo, Egypt) – Supermax prison located inside the ToraPrison complex. Gyeongbuk Northern the Second Correctional Center (Prison), Cheongsong, Gyeongsangbuk-do...
Greyson, he was arbitrarily arrested and spent seven weeks in Egypt's ToraPrison without charges. In 2018 he was shot in the leg while in the Gaza strip...
up Tora, tora, Torá, torà, Torà, or tóra in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tora or TORA may refer to: Tora (given name), female given name Tora (surname)...
Mubarak was taken from ToraPrison to the Cairo military hospital after falling and breaking a rib. He was released from prison in August 2013. On 19 June...
in executions followed a botched breakout attempt in September at the ToraPrison in Cairo. Four police officers and four death-row prisoners died in the...
Court and sentenced to seven years of incarceration at the ToraPrison, a maximum-security prison. On 1 January 2015, the Egyptian Court of Appeals announced...
witnessed other prisoners being tortured. He was then transferred to ToraPrison and put on trial. Represented by Sadiq Khan, he was sentenced to five...
list of notable people who have died in prison, whether in prison or in hospital while still serving a prison sentence. This list does not include inmates...
incarcerated for more than two years in pretrial detention, Habash died in ToraPrison in Cairo in May 2020 at the age of 24. Prosecutors stated that Habash's...
more lives. ToraPrison massacre June 1, 1957 Cairo 21 21 members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt are extrajudicially executed in ToraPrison. Ras Sedr...
in prison for "spreading false news". Instead of getting justice for an assault she faced along with her mother and sister outside the Toraprison, Seif...
Czechoslovakia during the Cold War in 1951 and sentenced to 15 years in prison, before being released. Leon Ames: Film and television actor who, together...
suffers from asthma and was at particular risk if exposed to COVID-19 in ToraPrison. On 5 May 2020, Supreme State Security prosecutors (SSSP) renewed his...
to file a complaint about being physically assaulted outside Cairo's ToraPrison complex on 22 June 2020. According to Global Gender Gap Index, Egypt...
of a series of trials following the Egyptian revolution and held in ToraPrison. He was cleared of corruption charges in 2012 (overturning an earlier...
He told them he had been rendered into the hands of Egypt's SSI at ToraPrison, twenty miles south of Cairo. He said he had been subjected to various...
student Giulio Regeni. On 10 September 2017, Metwaly was thrown into ToraPrison. His detention was criticised by the governments of the UK, Canada, Germany...
forces moved the women detainees from the station to Qanatir Prison and the men to ToraPrison a high-security complex notorious for holding political prisoners...
November 2017, Swiss TV reported that Mustafa Hamza is being held in ToraPrison and has been in detention for three years. His advocate, Adel Moawad...
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