Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

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.

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.

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 Go…

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.

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 un…

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; somet…

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.

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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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.

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.

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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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

June 20, 2017

China: Around 120,000 given over five years in prison for drug crimes since 2012

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Asia Drugs China

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.

June 20, 2017

China: police-run detention centres are a 'human rights disaster': rights lawyers

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Asia Justice Torture China

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…

June 20, 2017

China : Draft law on detention centers won’t help reduce police torture, critics say

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Asia Torture China

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.

January 6, 2017

Hong Kong : ‘Mass indiscipline’ at Stanley Prison as 138 inmates stage hunger strike

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Discipline China

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…

January 6, 2017

Chine : Enfermé vingt-trois jours dans une prison secrète, il livre un récit glaçant

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Asia China

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January 3, 2017

China : A human rights activist, a secret prison and a tale from Xi Jinping's new China

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Asia 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 Republic

November 21, 2016

China : ‘Over 2,000 Nigerians dying in Chinese prisons’

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Asia China

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…

October 15, 2016

Chine : les femmes d'avocats emprisonnés défient le régime communiste

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Women Asia Justice China

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