Tora Prison Complex

This complex includes Istikbal Tora prison, Mazra Tora prison and its annex Mulhaq Mazra, the Leman Tora pison and its hospital and Scorpion high security prison. After his 2003 abduction from Italy, Egyptian cleric Abu Omar was tortured at Tora for over a year. He was stripped and placed in a room ‘so cold it felt my bones would snap’ and then moved to a boiling hot cell. Electric shocks were applied to his whole body, which caused lifelong difficulties with walking.