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Ai Pelo Prison

Lauhata, Timor-Leste

Ai Pelo Prison or Aipelo Prison (Prisão do Ai Pelo / Aipelo, Tetum: Prizaun Ai Pelo / Aipelo) is an historic late nineteenth-century Portuguese colonial prison in the Lauhata suco, East Timor, adjacent to the Savu Sea. It was deactivated in 1939 and is now a ruin.

Prison data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Other prisons in Timor-Leste