China
Seen in the press
Read our selection of press reports about this country. This is a short description of prison conditions on a national scale. It gives an account of the preceding year’s events.
China : the Uyghurs now live in a giant, open air prison camp
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…
China: Fotografías pirateadas revelan cómo funciona sistema penitenciario en Xinjiang
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Hong Kong : premier suspect reconnu coupable en vertu de la loi sur la sécurité
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Chine : au sein du Parti communiste chinois, des pouvoirs de police discrétionnaires
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China: welfare petition with 100,000 signatures pours heat on Hong Kong prison bosses to protect inmates from sweltering weather
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.China: jóvenes de Hong Kong en peligro de tortura tras su sentencia condenatoria en un juicio injusto
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Chine : jusqu'à trois ans de prison pour les HongKongais arrêtés en mer
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Chine : l’UE demande la libération "immédiate" de la "journaliste citoyenne" Zhang Zhan
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Chine : les autorités confirment la détention de Gulshan Abbas, femme médecin ouïghoure, pour "terrorisme"
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China: cien días después, se deben respetar los derechos de los jóvenes de Hong Kong detenidos
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China: Wang Quanzhang: in prison, I was tortured to extract a confession
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…À Hong Kong, la nouvelle loi sécuritaire prévoit la prison à vie
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Hong Kong: protesters say they were tortured in prison
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…China: le coronavirus, une menace pour les camps ouïghours
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China: finds spike in coronavirus cases in jails, officials fired
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.China: Coronavirus Covid-19, quelque 500 contaminés dans les prisons chinoises, nouveau foyer de contagion
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China: prison virus loopholes sound alarm to society
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…