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Tora Prison

Super-maximumLow
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Aging · 5mo ago
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  • A view of Tura on the Nile River.jpg

    Photo by Unknown via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

  • Tora El Asmant Metro Station.jpg

    Photo by Unknown via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

  • Tora El Asmant.jpg

    Photo by Unknown via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

  • Tora Jail.jpg

    Photo by Mohamed Ouda via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Capacity

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Current population

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Occupancy

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Year opened

1908

Operational

Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology

Facility profile

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1908

Region

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Security level

Super-maximum

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

No major issues documented in our database.

Notable inmates

  • Adel al-Gazzar
    1965
  • Hosni Mubarak
    Hosni Mubarak
    1928–2020 · politician

    Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak (Arabic: محمد حسني السيد مبارك‎; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the 4th president of Egypt from 1981 until his resignation in 2011, following the Egyptian revolution.

  • Mohamed Morsi
    Mohamed Morsi
    1951–2019 · politician
  • Gehad El-Haddad
    1981 · politician

    Gehad El-Haddad (Arabic: جهاد الحداد; born c.

  • Mahmoud Abu Zeid
    1987 · photojournalist

Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.

Contact & address

No public contact details available.

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Data completeness

28%

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World Prisons. (2026). Tora Prison. Retrieved October 15, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/tora-prison
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BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-tora-prison,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Tora Prison},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/tora-prison},
  urldate = {2026-10-15}
}