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: 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 judges…Source — Asia News
À Hong Kong, la nouvelle loi sécuritaire prévoit la prison à vie
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French
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 organised…Source — RTHK
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.Source — Reuters
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 all.Source — Global Times
China: inside Christmas card, a girl finds plea from Chinese prison laborers
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
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
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
China: data leak reveals how China 'brainwashes' Uighurs in prison camps
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
China: Ouïghours opprimés dans le Xinjiang, "Soyez sans pitié"
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China: "special project", torture and death in a prison
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
China: torture and death in a chinese prison
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
China: cárceles con sistema de vigilancia para controlar a musulmanes
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China: as another activist leaves prison gravely ill, Beijing’s treatment of prisoners must be investigated
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
China trabaja en crear cárceles inteligentes
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Hong Kong: on the inside looking out, doing life in HK’s maximum security prison
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
Hong Kong: Joshua Wong, Hong Kong's Most Prominent Pro-Democracy Activist, Has Been Jailed Again
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
Un militant chinois des droits de l'homme condamné à 8 ans de prison
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.Source — France info
Hong-Kong: prison is an inevitable part of Hong Kong's exhausting path to democracy
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
China: 13 Chinese sentenced to death for drugs offences as thousands look on in public trial
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
Chine : le Nobel de la paix Liu Xiaobo libéré de prison, en phase terminale de cancer
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.Source — L'Express
Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo released from Chinese prison with late-stage cancer
Liu was awarded Nobel peace prize in 2010 while serving 11-year sentence for inciting subversion of state powerSource — The Guardian
China: Around 120,000 given over five years in prison for drug crimes since 2012
Nearly 120,000 criminals charged with drug offences were handed sentences longer than five years by Chinese courts in the last five years, data released by the nation’s top court Tuesday shows.Source — Global Times
