Tag: Prisoners

Beijing Announces an End to Prisoner Organ Harvesting

China, long notorious for being the world’s most lavish state practitioner of the death penalty, has announced that it will put an end to the practice of harvesting the organs of executed prisoners by 2017. China Daily reports: China has pledged to abolish the practice of taking transplant human organs from condemned prisoners within three to five years, a senior health official said Thursda

March 23, 2012 5:22 PM

Official’s Death Fuels Concern for Shuanggui Detainees

The reported drowning of a Wenzhou official held in the Party’s internal disciplinary system has brought renewed at

April 15, 2013 2:38 PM

Poet Liao Yiwu’s Nightmare in Chinese Prison

At The New York Times, Elaine Sciolino talks to poet and author Liao Yiwu about his forthcoming memoir For a Song and a H

April 9, 2013 5:46 PM

Tibetan Activist Free After 17 Years in Prison

Tibetan activist Jigme Gyatso has been released from prison due to poor health one year from the end of an extended sente

April 2, 2013 3:11 PM

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