By the beginning of 1945 there were around 6,000 Danish prisoners in Germany.

Singapore falls to the Japanese in February - around 25,000 prisoners taken.

In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners.

The division also claimed to have secured around 1,500 prisoners of war.

The French lost 1500 men, killed and wounded, around 2,000 prisoners and ten pieces of artillery.

Around 100 prisoners were at any time taking part in construction work, much of this outside the barbed wire.

In 1997 there used to be around 7,000 prisoners.

The day's fighting had cost the brigade 80 dead and 190 wounded, however they had taken around 700 prisoners.

By 1986 it held around 6,000 prisoners, almost 50 of whom were drug dealers sentenced to death.

According to Amnesty, there are around 2 000 political prisoners, including journalists and several elected parliamentarians.