The Nocra prison camp was an Italian prison camp established on the island of Nocra, off the coast of

Massawa Massawa or Mitsiwa ( ) is a port city in the Northern Red Sea Region, Northern Red Sea region of Eritrea, located on the Red Sea at the northern end of the Gulf of Zula beside the Dahlak Archipelago. It has been a historically important port for ...

, in Italian colony of Eritrea, that was used to intern

political prisoners A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity. The political offense is not always the official reason for the prisoner's detention. There is no internationally recognized legal definition of the concept, although ...

. Years after the official end of the

Second Italo-Abyssinian War The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression waged by Italy against Ethiopia, which lasted from October 1935 to February 1937. In Ethiopia it is often referred to simply as the Ita ...

, the Italian authorities sent Ethiopian and Eritrean intellectuals and political prisoners with their families there. It was dismantled in 1941 after British forces occupied the island after the

Battle of Keren The Battle of Keren () took place from 3 February to 27 March 1941. Keren was attacked by the British during the East African Campaign of the Second World War. A force of Italian regular and colonial troops defended the position against troop ...

.Anthony D'Avray. ''Lords of the Red Sea:The History of a Red Sea Society from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries''. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1996
P. 222.
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{{Reflist Dahlak Archipelago Italian concentration camps Italian Eritrea Political repression in Eritrea

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