This is Nelson Mandela in 2003. He was photographed outside his former
prison cell while speaking during a press conference on Robben Island,
off the coast of Cape Town in South Africa. From mid 1960s to 1991, the
Island served as maximum security prison and was used in housing
political offenders.
Nelson Mandela was imprisoned at Robben Island Prison in the cell shown
below. And in 1990, he was freed from prison.
Until 1996, the Island was used as a medium security prison for criminal
offenders but the last of the political prisoners on Robben Island were
released in 1991.
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