Stadium Prison Documents

The IPM team entered the Stadium Prison (otherwise known as Point 11) for the first time in 2017. There it found hundreds of documents that had been left behind by ISIS.

The documents were saved in the IPM archive. They include arrest warrants, prison transfer documents, statements about cases related to both civilians and ISIS members, and security ID cards.

In this section, some of these documents are displayed in Arabic alongside their English translation. Each document is accompanied by an explanation detailing its content and specifying the issuing entity.

In keeping with the IPM’s professional and ethical standards for protecting the privacy of civilians and victims, the civilian names mentioned in the documents have been anonymized, and any information that could reveal civilian identities, such as addresses and fingerprints, have been removed. The noms de guerre and roles of ISIS members are kept as they are, because they do not reveal their true identities.

Study of the documents found in the Stadium Prison provides a better understanding of the structure of the ISIS security apparatus in Raqqa, the relations between the various security branches, the sentencing of those charged by ISIS, and how the sentences were implemented.