The Welikada Prison (Sinhala: වැලිකඩ බන්ධනාගාරය; also known as the Magazine Prison) is a maximum-security prison and the largest prison in Sri Lanka....

The Welikada Prison Massacre took place during the 1983 Black July pogrom against Sri Lankan Tamil minority in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Fifty-three prisoners...

The Welikada prison riot was a prison riot that occurred on 9 November 2012 at Welikada Prison in Sri Lanka. The riot broke out during a search for illegal...

Welikada prison is in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Welikada prison riot may also refer to: Welikada prison riot (1983), a riot at the prison in July 1983 Welikada...

Bogambara Prison was a maximum security prison and the second largest prison in the country after Welikada Prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka. After operating...

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Attica Prison Riot, also known as the Attica Prison Rebellion, the Attica Uprising, or the Attica Prison Massacre, took place at the state prison in Attica...

bars of Angunakolapelessa Super Prison". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 11 November 2023. Department of Prisons Bogambara Prison Mahara Prison Welikada Prison...

He was arrested and sentenced to death, and was killed in the 1983 Welikada prison massacre along with the other TELO leader Nadarajah Thangathurai. Selvarajah...

with life sentences.[citation needed] Somarama Thero was hanged at Welikada Prison on 6 July 1962. He gave up his robes a fortnight before his hanging...

Welikada is a suburb in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is the location of the Welikada Maximum Security Prison. v t e...

of Trincomalee in April 2006. 2012 Welikada prison riot (Welikada, Western Province) − A riot in the Welikada Prison in November 2012 results in the death...

HM Prison Ford (informally known as Ford Open Prison) is a Category D men's prison, located at Ford, in West Sussex, England, near Arundel and Littlehampton...

Anglican priest Father Mathew Pieris. He was hanged in the gallows at the Welikada Prison on July 6, 1962. He was 48 years old. The hanging was undertaken by...

One of the most notorious incidents of the rioting took place at the Welikada Prison on 25 July. Fifty three Tamil prisoners, most of them detained under...

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south of Santa Fe, was the most violent prison riot in U.S. history. Inmates took complete control of the prison and twelve officers were taken hostage...

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The 1974 Huntsville Prison siege was an eleven-day prison uprising that took place from July 24 to August 3, 1974, at the Huntsville Walls Unit of the...

and sent to Welikada Prison. Sri Lanka passed new legislation in order to try him in their courts and sentenced him to five years in prison. His wife and...

He was arrested and sentenced to death and was killed in the 1983 Welikada prison massacre during the Black July riots in Sri Lanka, along with the TELO...

Central Prison in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo resulted in the deaths of at least 129 people and more than 59 other injuries. A prison official...

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incidents at the makeshift prison. Despite the deaths, the National Islamic Movement militia did not reinforce security at the prison. John Kerry's report for...

guilty and sentenced to life in prison. Thangadurai, Kuttimani, Devan, Sivapatham and Nadesudasan were kept at Welikada Prison whilst their appeal was waiting...

death of Joseph Stalin, to only convicts with criminal sentences and small prison terms, of which there were few in Vorkuta, as a large part of the inmates...

The attack on the Magazine prison was an attack carried by Deshapremi Janatha Viyaparaya (Patriotic People's Movement), the armed wing of the JVP which...