Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

January 12, 2023

China: Rights defender ‘brutally tortured’ in prison

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Asia Torture China

Chinese human rights activist Lin Mingjie, who is serving a five-year jail term reportedly on fabricated charges, has been subjected to brutal torture in prison, his family members alleged. Lin Mingjie is jailed in Shenyang, the capital city of northeastern Liaoning province. He was subjected to to…

Source — Ucanews

September 20, 2022

China: Xinjiang official figures reveal higher prisoner count

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Asia Torture China

The Chinese government has used its justice system to sentence and imprison an estimated half-million people during the brutal crackdown in Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch said today. While not all convicted prisoners faced political charges, the available figures indicate that the total number of peo…

Source — Human Rights Watch

June 14, 2022

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

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Asia Material conditions China

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… Read more

June 2, 2022

China: Fotografías pirateadas revelan cómo funciona sistema penitenciario en Xinjiang

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Asia Torture Violence China

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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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Asia Justice Protest China

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July 1, 2021

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

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Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Justice China

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June 17, 2021

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

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Asia Health Material conditions Torture China

Lü’s health has deteriorated while in prison, according to a report by the Chinese human rights news website Minsheng Guancha (Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch) and the journalist’s wife, Wang Xue’e, who told CPJ in a phone interview that, during a prison visit on May 22, he looked fragile and had…

Source — IFEX

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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Asia Health Material conditions Overcrowding China

More than 100,000 Hongkongers have signed a petition urging prison authorities to roll out special measures such as the provision of cold water for inmates, as the city swelters under exceptionally hot weather. The “very hot weather” alert issued by the Observatory – which warns the public of heats…

Source — South China Morning Post

March 1, 2021

China: Tibetan tour guide dies from prison injuries

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Asia Access to legal rights Justice Torture Violence China

Chinese authorities should account for the death of a Tibetan tour guide serving a 21-year sentence for reporting protests in his native region seven years ago, Human Rights Watch said today. Kunchok Jinpa, 51, died in a hospital in Lhasa in the Tibetan Autonomous Region on February 6, 2021, less t…

Source — Human Rights Watch

January 4, 2021

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

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Asia Minors Access to legal rights Justice Protest Torture Violence China

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January 4, 2021

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

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Asia Minors Access to legal rights Justice Protest China

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January 4, 2021

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

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Women Asia Access to legal rights Justice Protest Torture Violence China

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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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Women Asia Long-term prisoners Access to legal rights Justice Protest China

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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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Asia Minors Access to legal rights Justice China

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July 2, 2020

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

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Asia Torture China

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…

Source — Asia News

July 1, 2020

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

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Asia Justice China

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May 6, 2020

Hong Kong: protesters say they were tortured in prison

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Asia Torture China

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…

Source — RTHK

March 18, 2020

China: le coronavirus, une menace pour les camps ouïghours

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Coronavirus Asia Health China

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March 18, 2020

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

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Coronavirus Asia Health China

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.

Source — Reuters

March 18, 2020

China: Coronavirus Covid-19, quelque 500 contaminés dans les prisons chinoises, nouveau foyer de contagion

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Coronavirus Asia Health China

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February 27, 2020

China: prison virus loopholes sound alarm to society

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Coronavirus Asia Health China

On Friday, a prison in Rencheng, Shandong Province, reported 200 new cases of novel coronavirus infection. Another 27 were reported in Shilifeng prison in Zhejiang Province. These new cases added to a sudden uptick in the nation’s overall number of infected cases, which shouldn’t have happened at a…

Source — Global Times

December 27, 2019

China: inside Christmas card, a girl finds plea from Chinese prison laborers

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Asia Torture Work China

A 6-year-old found the note in London while writing Christmas cards to her classmates. “Forced to work against our will,” the message read.

Source — New York Times

December 12, 2019

China: el mayor carcelero de periodistas en el mundo

Asia China

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December 9, 2019

China: state claims all Uighur Muslims have happily 'graduated' from its oppressive prison camp system, despite widespread reports that at least 1 million are detained

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Asia China

China has imprisoned at least 1 million Uighur Muslims in prison-like detention camps in the western Xinjiang region, according to numerous activists and researchers.

Source — Business Insider