Tag: Prisoners

Chen Guangcheng chen xi children crackdown death penalty forced labor gaming Gao Qinrong Gao Zhisheng Germany gold farming history house arrest illegal detentions June 4th Korean War legal system Liao Yiwu Liu Xianbin media censorship organ harvesting prison abuse subversion Tibetan culture Tibetan independence UN UNHCHR United Kingdom Wang Lihong writers

Heavy Punishment and the Ongoing Crackdown in China

A recent string of long prison terms for inciting subversion has been widely seen as demonstrating the increasingly inhospitable climate for political dissent in China. Bob Dietz of the Committee to Protect Journalists, for example, stated that “the severe sentence given to Chen Xi for online writing indicates that Chinese authorities are tightening their control of dissent …. Penalties against g