History of Ai Pelo Prison in Timor-Leste

“No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones”, Nelson Mandela

Built in 1889, deactivated in 1939, Ai Pelo Prison is a Portuguese colonial building in Lauhata, #TimorLeste. After Japanese invasion of Timor-Leste in 1942 during #WWII the prison was converted into a command post. Since end of the War, the prison building has never been used.