Hellooo everyone what is going on im your host ayman hasan and welcome back to another
video here at most amazing top 10. If theres one thing we all can agree on is that prisons
are a place that no one wants to end up at. Ever. period. Exclamation point. Underlined.
Highlighted. Bold. font size 500. but im sure there have been times where youve been sat
at home bored watching tv and a random prison documentary comes on and youre like oh this
is what its like. No no my friend you have no idea what its like or where these prisons
even are but youre about to find out. Its almost insulting to you guys to say this now
cus i know you already know, but remmeber to like and subscribe to the channel and if
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videos as well. But without further ado, this is the top 10 scary hidden prisons.
Coming in at number 10 is at Sabenta Prison in Maracaibo Venezuela. Said to be one of
the most violent prisons in the world, Sabenta was named the gateway to the fifth circle
of hell by former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. The prison was originally built to
house 700 inmates but it currently has more than 3700, the prisoner to guard ratio is
150 to 1 so maintaining any sort of order is pretty much a distant dream. Armed inmates
control the prison in a sort of gang controlled hierarchy, the poorer ones have to pay the
more powerful ones for a place to sleep or even water to drink. That water btw comes
from corroded bathroom pipes. In 1994, 108 inmates were killed in a prison riot. War
between gangs even lead to dismemberment and beheadings. This is may seem surprising but
Venezuela is ranked second in the world for homicide rates so after hearing that you can
imagine the sort of people in this prison.
At number 9 is Cat’s Eye in Thailand. As nice as the name is the place itself was far
from it. Cats eye was a secret CIA prison set up in 2002 to hold Abu Zubaydah who was
suspected to be one of Bin Ladens right hand men. He was the only inmate of the prison
for 6 months, he lived inside a coffin sized box and was constantly waterboarded nearly
everyday until he fainted. The second prisoner arrived in November 2002 and both were used
to test out enhanced interrogation techniques. They were also subject to walling which was
basically a punishment where they slammed both prisoners against a wall. A month later
the prison was apparently shut down and moved to Poland but no one can confirm this. Till
this day no one even knows the location of Cat’s Eye.
Coming in at number 8 is the Salt Pit in Afghanistan. This prison is a secret prison run by the
CIA... not so secret i guess, and it was meant to hold inmates suspected of having links
with terrorists. The salt pit used to be a brick factory so its cells are extremely small
and obviously have no toilets or windows. Most inmates just have one bucket in their
room and have to sleep on the cold floor naked. All of them are subjected to inhumane treatment
and punishments like frequent mock executions. Like how can you pretend to kill someone that
is disgusting. The guards also play really loud music throughout the day as psychological
torture. Only one death has been verified by the prison and the inmate was chained above
his head, stripped, beaten and drenched and then he died of hypothermia the next day.
His family was never informed.
At number 7 we have Black jails in China. These are secret prisons illegally run by
individual chinese provinces and local governments. If someone has a grievance they have to report
it to their provincial or local government and if they dont get the justice they wanted
theyre allowed to send that same report to the central government. The number of reports
coming in from each province decides how effective that government is so to avoid being deemed
ineffective these local governments seek out the people who send reports to the central
government. They employ more than 10,000 to kidnap, torture and detain these people and
the prisons theyre put in are usually vacant homes, guesthouses or psychiatric wards. By
2009 it was confirmed there are around 73 black jails inside beijing and the central
government knows about it.
Coming in at number 6 is is the USS Ashland. This is just the name of one of the seventeen
US warships that the CIA has secretly been using as prisons. Theres a total of 26000
people held on these ships, most ships carry at least 500 Marines to take care of the ship
and guard the prisoners. The ships are common for people who have been abducted and detained
in foreign countries like Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya etc. not much is actually known about
what goes on in these floating prisons but its said that even when the ships are docked
prisoners are never allowed to get off and likely rarely ever leave their holding cells.
I get really seasick so i cant even imagine if a prisoner who also got seasick ended up
on one of these floating prisons.
At number 5 is Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti. Camp lemonnier is located right next to Djiboutis
Ambouli international airport and is meant to be an US naval expeditionary base. But
its never just a naval base is it. Its also used by the CIA as a black site where dozens
and dozens of people are secretly kidnapped, then tortured and interrogated. Since its
located right in between terrorist hot zones like Somalia and Yemen, inmates flood into
the camp on a weekly basis and alot of them never make it out or if they do, they never
speak about what was done to them in the camp. Whether thats because they were paid off or
threatened who knows? You guys decide.
Coming in at 4 is Camp 7 of Guantanamo Bay. Yes i know that isnt a secret by any stretch
of the imagination but no one knows where camp 7 is. It was built away from the main
prison and was used for 15 inmates who the CIA dubbed as high value detainees. One being
the person behind 911 apparently. If inmates already get tortured at the other camps multiply
that by a fairly large number and thats the sort of level and frequency of torture you
get at camp 7. During his hearing, one inmate even claimed his cell used to make strange
noises and vibrate and it turned out to be true since the building itself was falling
apart and theyre STILL keeping them in there.
At number 3 is the Temara Interrogation Centre in Morocco. I know it doesnt have prison in
the title but it is one. The centre is located in a forest and is operated by a moroccan
government unit that goes by the acronym DST. DST has violated so many human rights at the
Temara Interrogation centre i cant even begin the list. Interrogators beat their inmates,
burn them, waterboard them, electrocute them, you name it they do it to them. And the reason
behind all this you ask? To extract confessions or information or make the inmates sign statements
they have zero knowledge of. The US has confirmed that the CIA funds the centre whereas morocco
denies the centre even exists. What do you guys think?
Coming in at number 2 are a series of unnamed Yemeni prisons. According to the Human Rights
Watch a very trustworthy source mind you says theyve been informed by various people that
there is a huge network of secret yemeni prisons in eastern yemen. The anonymous people that
have come forward to talk about what goes in there have said people suffer from sexual
harassment and threats, electric shocks, sleep and sensory deprivation, beatings with metal
tools and being stripped and whipped. Yemeni family members of those who have quote on
quote disappeared for months at a time never get a word about whether that person is alive
where they are what theyre doing absolutely nothing.
Last but not least coming in with a bang at number 1 s a secret Iraqi government prison
that is yet to be named. This prison is so horrific its been labelle worse than the Abu
Ghraib prison. The prison is located in an airfield west of Baghdad and prisoners were
taken there after being arrested for acting against the state. Freed captives have said
they were suffocated electrocuted and raped while inside the prison. One man went to iraq
to find his missing son and they arrested him, beat him, sodomised him, attached electrical
charges to his private parts and then forced him to sign a confession which he didnt even
get to read. Another inmate said he was raped on a daily basis and was beaten so badly he
had serious leg injuries and lost his front teeth. The things i read and found out while
reading about this one you guys would not even imagine. Those two examples were horrific
but i only included 2 out of the many i read. Some things you literally cant unsee, or in
this case unread.
And that is it for todays video guys! I hope it didnt horrify you too much but as my economics
professor once said about life it is what it is quite bleak i know but i feel like thats
how prisons make most people feel. And im talking about the people on the outside not
even on the inside. Lemme know which ones you guys knew about before if any in the comments
below and ill make sure to check em out. But thats it from me guys im your host ayman hasan
and i will see you on the next one. byeeee.