Alem Bekagn

Background

Alem Bekagn (Amharic: ዓለም በቃኝ, "Farewell to the World"), or 'Kerchele Prison', was a central prison in Ethiopia until 2004. Located in Addis Ababa, the prison possibly existed as early as 1923, under the reign of Empress Zewditu, but became notorious after Second Italo-Ethiopian War as the site where Ethiopian intellectuals were detained and killed by Italian Fascists in the Yekatit 12 massacre. After the restoration of Emperor Haile Selassie, the prison remained in use to house Eritrean nationalists and those involved in the Woyane rebellion. Under the Communist Derg regime that followed, the prison was the site of another mass killing, the Massacre of the Sixty, and of the torture and execution of rival groups in the Red Terror. The prison remained a site of human rights abuses until the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front entered Addis Ababa on 28 May 1991, after which it became a normal prison.

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Same country, matched on type + security level where possible.

• Akaki Police Prison
• Bonga Prison
• Bahir Dar Prison
• Abiy Adi Prison
  Abiy Adi
• Correction facility
  Asela
• Kilinto Prison

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World Prisons. (2026). Alem Bekagn. Retrieved October 15, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/alem-bekagn

"Alem Bekagn." World Prisons. Accessed October 15, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/alem-bekagn.

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  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Alem Bekagn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/alem-bekagn},
  urldate = {2026-10-15}
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