[1] The center is used to interrogate Palestinian detainees and prisoners from a variety of age groups, including children.

The Palestinian NGO Addameer has alleged that harsh methods of torture are used there.

[2] In 1990, it was reported that the jail was used mainly for Palestinians fighting Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Both the Moscovia Detention Centre and the nearby Museum of Underground Prisoners are yellow brick buildings that were built as part of a complex of hostels and a green-domed church for pilgrims by the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1860s.

[3] In 2017 a documentary by director Raed Andoni was released called Ghost Hunting (Arabic: إصطياد اشباح Iṣṭiyād ʾAšbāḥ).