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Borg El Arab Prison
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Borg El Arab Prison is a prison located in Alexandria Governorate, Egypt. Large facility west of Alexandria. Egypt's Ministry of Interior publishes no official capacity or population data for its detention facilities. This record is sourced from the Human Rights First Egypt Prison Atlas and the Carnegie Endowment's 'Mapping Egypt's Prisons' dataset.
Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
2004
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 16 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
2004
Region
Alexandria
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
Large facility west of Alexandria
Notable inmates
Mohamed Morsi1951–2019 · politician
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
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Data completeness
32%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HRF Egypt Prison Atlas (Wikithawra)
- Carnegie Endowment — Mapping Egypt's Prisons
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Egypt Prison Atlas — Human Rights First — Human Rights First (HRF) / Wikithawra
- Wikidata (Q16117728)
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Borg El Arab Prison. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/borg-el-arab-prison
Chicago
"Borg El Arab Prison." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/borg-el-arab-prison.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-borg-el-arab-prison,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Borg El Arab Prison},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/borg-el-arab-prison},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}