Goli Otok was once described as a "Living Hell" by those who were unlucky enough to be sent to the prison. Lying just two miles off the coast of Croatia, the prison was less a place for petty ...

From afar, the island of Goli Otok appears peaceful albeit with little resources to offer to a community. But a closer look at the abandoned buildings on the uninhabited island will reveal its ...

Goli Otok, a barren and uninhabited island in the northern Adriatic Sea, was used between 1949 and 1989 as a dumping ground for prisoners of war and political dissenters. More than 15,000 people ...

Now the crumbling remnants of the eerie Goli Otok - branded 'Croatia's Alcatraz' - have been revealed in all their horrors. In the 40 years it was open from 1949, Amnesty International estimates ...

Goli Otok, which means “barren island” in Croatian, truly lives up to its name. Located in the northern Adriatic Sea just off the coast of western Croatia lies the uninhabited island.

GOLI OTOK, Croatia – It rises up from the pristine waters off Croatia's coast, a forbidding mound of rock known as the Adriatic Alcatraz. The amount former political prisoners are being offered ...

Goli Otok opened in 1949 and was designed as a prison and political re-education facility. Prisoners were reportedly forced to undergo brutal regimes and even tortured into drinking chemicals as ...

While the former is more difficult to quantify, Tito's infamous Goli Otok, or Naked Island—which served as the communist regime's political prison between 1956 and 1988—is yet another ...

The names of people imprisoned at a notorious detention camp on the Croatian island of Goli Otok were published online as part of an exhibition aimed at exposing Communist crimes. This post is ...