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China: RSF calls for the release of independent journalist Li Weizhong
18 Nov 2024 15:00 GMT
On 15 November, the Chinese news website Weiquanwang revealed … been placed by the Chinese regime under Residential Surveillance … Chinese state’s official euphemism for incommunicado detention at a “black jail … exceed six months under China’s code of criminal …
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Xi vs. Xu: Two Visions for China’s Future
14 Nov 2024 09:11 GMT
… dinner conversations,” mostly about China’s political future, at … (“black jails”) to free petitioners who were arbitrarily detained.
Chinese law … organized meetings and explored China’s future with courageous … kind of China is better for the Chinese people, …
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US soldier Gordon Black jailed for nearly 4 years in Russia after love story turns sour
19 Jun 2024 03:41 GMT
A US soldier was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly four years in a Russian penal colony after being found guilty by a Russian court of stealing US$113 from his girlfriend and making threats to kill her, a Reuters witness reported from the courtroom.
The …
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Michael Kovrig reflects on ‘brutally hard’ Chinese detention: ‘You’re totally alone’
23 Sep 2024 19:03 GMT
… took me to a secret black jail and then proceeded to interrogate … in 2018 on widely condemned Chinese claims of espionage.
The Canadian … way.”
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Canada and China’s relationship status after Meng … fascination for many aspects of China as a country, its people …
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Cheng Lei: Australian TV presenter is freed by China and finally returns home to Melbourne after three years in a 'black jail' accused of spying
11 Oct 2023 06:22 GMT
By Eliza Mcphee For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 01:34 EDT, 11 October 2023 | Updated: 02:18 EDT, 11 October 2023
Australian journalist Cheng Lei has arrived home safely in Australia after she was detained in China for more than three years.
Anthony …
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Chinese #MeToo journalist jailed for five years
14 Jun 2024 06:31 GMT
… #MeToo activist in China has been handed a … black jails'.
In 2021, amid Covid lockdowns and growing public anger, Chinese … quot; said Amnesty International’s China Director Sarah Brooks.
… and social causes in China choose to remain anonymous …
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Chinese govt arbitrarily detains over 1 mn Uyghurs, members of other Muslim minority groups: US report
23 Apr 2024 01:07 GMT
… April 23 (ANI): The Chinese government has arbitrarily arrested and … during the year in China against predominantly Muslim … human rights abuses in China also include, crimes involving … detention facilities, including "black jails."However, the law …
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“Invitation to tea”: Chinese regime’s Orwellian threat to journalists
09 Feb 2024 09:05 GMT
… in the regime’s black jails.
The list of matters … autonomous region in western China, where the authorities are … activities. At least eight Chinese journalists are currently imprisoned … targets foreign correspondents in China, who can be arbitrarily …
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China starts detaining petitioners ahead of regional congresses
04 Jan 2024 16:35 GMT
… 's Congress and Chinese People's Political …
China's army of petitioners, who flood the ruling Chinese … detention centers known as "black jails," beaten, or otherwise … of defiance against the ruling Chinese Communist Party before they …
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American Recounts Being Tortured and Drugged in China’s ‘Black Jails’
08 Aug 2021 13:42 GMT
… black jails—ordinary places that are turned into unofficial jails by Chinese … traveling to China.
“China is really one giant black jail. It … traveling in China. It also said the Chinese regime uses … nowhere. Orders from the [Chinese Communist] Party, basically, …