Reference : V-P-IQ-E-00894
Date : 29/07/2010
Country/Region : IRAQ
Caption : Sulaymaniyah governorate, Soulaimaniya town. Red Jail, which is now a museum.
Photographer : GREUB, Michael
Confidentiality level : public
Publication restrictions : publication without restrictions
Copyright : ICRC
Description : The Red Jail was the last place under the former regime of Saddam Hussein that surrendered to the kurdish authorities in the uprising in 1991. Many kurdish women and men had been held in that prison or were murdered before the rest was freed. Now the Jail was turned into a museum. Museum part showing ancient traditional items.
Original material : digital
Resolution : 4416x3312
Orientation : landscape
Colour/B&W : colour

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