Condition of Political Prisoners:

Banda Aceh had 3 Rehabilitation Institution which all of the had been knocked down by the earthquake and tsunami waves. Those rehab place are, LP Lhoknga, LP Keudah and LP Lamprit toward Darussalam area. The condition of many of their prisoners still unclear and their existence unknown, but many of them are estimated died by the disaster.

In Aceh Besar there is one Rehabilitation Institution or LP, 45 of the prisoners escaped with details: 26 of them political prisoners and 19 ordinary prisoners. This LP hadn�t been affected by the disaster but the prisoners escaped on December 29th 2004. Before this happened, the prisoners had asked for release to visit the families after the disaster, but was rejected. They finally escaped using their clothes as rope and broke out from the bars. At this moment, some of the prisoners had surrender back into the jail are about 4 political prisoners and one ordinary prisoner. In this rehab, there are a total of 180 prisoners and 32 of them are political prisoners.

In Pidie there are 2 rehabs institutions, in Sigli and Lamno, Sub-District or Kecamatan Kota Bakti. In Sigli, the prisoners was released by the officials because of the earthquake and tsunami. The total of them are 222 people. So far, there are about 41 political prisoners returned to the jail and there are 3 prisoners died. Some of the prisoners also returned to the judges house-complex to help out on the cleaning up of the area.

In rehabilitation institution in Kota Bakti there are about 48 political prisoners from other jail and 83 criminal prisoners. In this place, one prisoner died in the hospital or RSU Kota Bakti, 36 unknown their whereabouts and some of them are 20 political prisoners.