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Gherla Prison is a penitentiary located in the Romanian city of Gherla (Hungarian: Szamosújvár), in Cluj County. The prison dates from 1785; it is infamous

Gherla (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈɡerla]; Hungarian: Szamosújvár; German: Neuschloss) is a municipality in Cluj County, Romania (in the historical region

Miguel Castro Castro prison Aiud Prison, Aiud Gherla Prison, Gherla Pitești Prison, Pitești Butyrka Prison, Moscow Corrective colony No. 2, Mordovia Corrective

"reeducation" had occurred at the prison in Suceava, continuing in a violent manner in Pitești and, less violently, at the Gherla Prison. The group of overseers

Wurmbrand, who passed through the penal facilities of Pitești, Craiova, Gherla, the Danube–Black Sea Canal, Văcărești, Malmaison, Cluj and ultimately Jilava

the communist regime, including Sighet Prison, Gherla Prison, Jilava Prison, Râmnicu Sărat Prison, Pitești Prison, and the Danube–Black Sea Canal (where

being incarcerated at the notorious Văcărești, Jilava, Gherla, Dej, Pitești, and Aiud prisons. In December 1951, together with Mircea Vulcănescu (who

the Sighet Prison. Between 1948 and 1964, Rațiu was imprisoned at a succession of prisons: Căldărușani, Sighet (May 1950 – July 1955), Gherla (1955–1959)

Gherla Prison, where he continued his activity as torturer on a reduced scale until that December. On 19 December he was transferred to Jilava Prison

After this prison was closed on 13 April 1963, he was transferred to Gherla Prison, where he shared a cell with Nicolae Steinhardt. He was freed from detention