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March 6, 2025

China: how the country holds officials in secret, solitary detention

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China holds hundreds of thousands of its own officials in solitary, incommunicado detention each year, depriving them of legal representation in a practice known as “liuzhi,” according to overseas-based rights groups.

February 27, 2025

China: the country has half a million Uyghurs in prison or detention

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China still has more than half a million Uyghurs in prisons or detention centers and has expanded its repression of the ethnic group, a new report says, despite Beijing’s assurances that the northwestern region of Xinjiang has returned to normalcy.

February 26, 2025

China: ‘Border of Tears’, interviewing victims of Xinjiang prison camps

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Subjected to arbitrary arrests and forced labor, sterilizations to torture, more than one million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other minorities are estimated to have been locked up in so-called “re-education” camps and prisons in the region over the last decade.

February 21, 2025

China: 'Made in Prison' products gain popularity as online sales platform launches

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An online charity platform that offers products designed and produced by incarcerated people has garnered favorable feedback from the public. The platform, Made in Prison, offers a variety of products including woodenware, ornaments, stationery, rattan products, and daily necessities.

October 31, 2023

China : RSF urges for release of political commentator on hunger strike, at risk of dying

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of political commentator Guo Feixiong.

January 12, 2023

China: Rights defender ‘brutally tortured’ in prison

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Lin Mingjie has been in prison since 2016 after he sued local officials for abusing the law for personal gain.

September 20, 2022

China: Xinjiang official figures reveal higher prisoner count

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Half-Million prosecuted, imprisoned during crackdown

June 14, 2022

China : the Uyghurs now live in a giant, open air prison camp

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There’s a cultural genocide taking place in China right now against the nation’s Uyghur minority. Aggressively monitored by Chinese authorities and faced with the constant threat of arrest or torture, this Turkish-speaking people in China’s Far West now exist in the world’s first, real-life, digita…

June 2, 2022

China: Fotografías pirateadas revelan cómo funciona sistema penitenciario en Xinjiang

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July 27, 2021

Hong Kong : premier suspect reconnu coupable en vertu de la loi sur la sécurité

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July 1, 2021

Chine : au sein du Parti communiste chinois, des pouvoirs de police discrétionnaires

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June 17, 2021

China: chinese journalist Lü Gengsong’s health deteriorating in prison

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The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling for the immediate release of journalist Lü Gengsong, whose health is reportedly deteriorating in prison.

May 26, 2021

China: welfare petition with 100,000 signatures pours heat on Hong Kong prison bosses to protect inmates from sweltering weather

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The drive, initiated by rights group Wall-fare which was set up by former opposition lawmaker Shiu Ka-chun, urges measures such as cold water, improved ventilation and extra showers.

March 1, 2021

China: Tibetan tour guide dies from prison injuries

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Sentenced to 21 years for providing information to foreign media.

January 4, 2021

China: jóvenes de Hong Kong en peligro de tortura tras su sentencia condenatoria en un juicio injusto

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January 4, 2021

Chine : jusqu'à trois ans de prison pour les HongKongais arrêtés en mer

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January 4, 2021

Chine : l’UE demande la libération "immédiate" de la "journaliste citoyenne" Zhang Zhan

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January 4, 2021

Chine : les autorités confirment la détention de Gulshan Abbas, femme médecin ouïghoure, pour "terrorisme"

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December 2, 2020

China: cien días después, se deben respetar los derechos de los jóvenes de Hong Kong detenidos

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July 2, 2020

China: Wang Quanzhang: in prison, I was tortured to extract a confession

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The human rights lawyer gives first interview since finishing his sentence in April. He spent four years in jail for “subversion against the state”. After being beaten for hours, the prison authorities forced him to sign an affidavit declaring his guilt. Wang: “Police, investigating magistrates and…

July 1, 2020

À Hong Kong, la nouvelle loi sécuritaire prévoit la prison à vie

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May 6, 2020

Hong Kong: protesters say they were tortured in prison

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Three anti-government protesters said on Tuesday that they had been tortured and abused while detained in a Hong Kong prison, alleging they were taken to areas away from surveillance footage and beaten and slapped. Appearing via Skype and in a pre-recorded video shown at a press conference organise…

March 18, 2020

China: le coronavirus, une menace pour les camps ouïghours

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March 18, 2020

China: finds spike in coronavirus cases in jails, officials fired

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The infections found in the two jails, in the northern province of Shandong and the eastern province of Zhejiang, made up most of the 258 newly confirmed cases on Thursday outside the central province of Hubei, where the most cases have occurred.