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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 judges…

Source — Asia News

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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 organised…

Source — RTHK

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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

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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 all.

Source — Global Times

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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

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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

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November 24, 2019

China: data leak reveals how China 'brainwashes' Uighurs in prison camps

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Asia China

Leaked documents detail for the first time China’s systematic brainwashing of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in a network of high-security prison camps.

Source — BBC

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November 17, 2019

China: Ouïghours opprimés dans le Xinjiang, "Soyez sans pitié"

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Asia China

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September 21, 2019

China: "special project", torture and death in a prison

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Asia Torture China

The city of Benxi in China’s Liaoning Province boasts a unique tourist attraction: the smallest lake in the world, measuring just 15 square meters. But there’s another aspect to Benxi that is nothing to be proud of—it is home to one of the most brutal prisons in the country, especially for Falun Gong…

Source — The Epoch Times

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September 20, 2019

China: torture and death in a chinese prison

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Asia Torture China

There’s another aspect to Benxi that is nothing to be proud of—it is home to one of the most brutal prisons in the country, especially for Falun Gong adherents.

Source — The Epoch Times

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September 13, 2019

China: cárceles con sistema de vigilancia para controlar a musulmanes

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Asia Religion China

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May 25, 2019

China: as another activist leaves prison gravely ill, Beijing’s treatment of prisoners must be investigated

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Asia China

The Chinese rights activist Ji Sizun was released from prison in late April after serving four and a half years on fabricated charges of “gathering a crowd to disrupt public order” and “picking quarrels.” But rather than returning home, the 69-year-old Ji was taken straight to the intensive care unit…

Source — Hong Kong Free Press

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March 5, 2019

China trabaja en crear cárceles inteligentes

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Asia China

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January 4, 2019

Hong Kong: on the inside looking out, doing life in HK’s maximum security prison

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China

Mario de los Reyes is gasping for air. It’s just after midday on a hot afternoon in late May and the sun is baking the concrete yard where the 64-year-old has been playing football with fellow maximum security inmates at Stanley Prison. But this isn’t just the heat and exertion from exercise; something…

Source — Coconuts

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January 17, 2018

Hong Kong: Joshua Wong, Hong Kong's Most Prominent Pro-Democracy Activist, Has Been Jailed Again

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China

Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was sentenced Wednesday to three months in prison for his role in massive protests in 2014, dealing another blow to the pro-democratic youth movement in this semi-autonomous region of China.

Source — Time

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December 26, 2017

Un militant chinois des droits de l'homme condamné à 8 ans de prison

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China

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Source — France info

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September 28, 2017

Hong-Kong: prison is an inevitable part of Hong Kong's exhausting path to democracy

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China

In the first of a series of columns for the Guardian from his cell, the political activist says his detention is shining a light on China’s authoritarianism.

Source — The Guardian

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June 27, 2017

China: 13 Chinese sentenced to death for drugs offences as thousands look on in public trial

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Asia Drugs China

Two courts in southern China’s Guangdong province sentenced 13 people to death for producing and selling drugs at a public trial in a stadium in the city of Shanwei watched by some 10,000 people, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Source — South China Morning Post Society

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June 26, 2017

Chine : le Nobel de la paix Liu Xiaobo libéré de prison, en phase terminale de cancer

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Asia China

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Source — L'Express

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June 26, 2017

Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo released from Chinese prison with late-stage cancer

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Asia China

Liu was awarded Nobel peace prize in 2010 while serving 11-year sentence for inciting subversion of state power

Source — The Guardian

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