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: Ouïghours opprimés dans le Xinjiang, "Soyez sans pitié"
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French
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 Go…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 un…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; somet…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.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.China: police-run detention centres are a 'human rights disaster': rights lawyers
Recent proposals to reform China’s police-run detention centers are unlikely to do much to address a nationwide “human rights disaster” for police suspects in detention, human rights lawyers told RFA. The country’s Ministry of Public Security issued a call for consultation this week on a replacemen…China : Draft law on detention centers won’t help reduce police torture, critics say
Source - Caixin Global A draft of China’s first-ever law on criminal detention centers calls for better access to bail and medical care for detainees, but legal experts say it will have a limited impact on reducing police torture.Hong Kong : ‘Mass indiscipline’ at Stanley Prison as 138 inmates stage hunger strike
Elite anti-riot guards called in to deal with protest in dining hall. Heavily armed anti-riot prison guards ended a hunger strike attempt by more than 130 inmates at one of Hong Kong’s highest security prisons as they occupied a dining hall to protest disciplinary actions against three fellow priso…China : A human rights activist, a secret prison and a tale from Xi Jinping's new China
Peter Dahlin spent 23 days in a ‘black prison’ in Beijing, where he says he was deprived of sleep and questioned with a ‘communication enhancement’ machine. Here he tells the story of his incarceration and expulsion from the People’s RepublicChina : ‘Over 2,000 Nigerians dying in Chinese prisons’
Man deported from China smuggles notes from Dong-guan prison. Three days after Chijioke Obioha, a 38-year-old Nigerian, was executed in Singapore for drug trafficking, The Guardian has received a prison note smuggled out of Dong-guan prison in China by a source, which gave graphic details of the pl…