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1. News - China

   Beijing black jail 'releases thousands of petitioners'

   Posted Dec 05th 2012, 12:20pm by Amy Li

   ... News China Comment Blogs Black Jails Amy Li A notorious Beijing detention centre known to illegally hold petitioners released thousands of prisoners on Tuesday, according to a source and media reports.  Many activists view the release as a signal from China’s new leadership to further crack down on the so-called “black jails”, which detain people who come to Beijing to petition ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1097971/beijing-black-jail-releases-thousands-petitioners
2. News - World - BAHRAIN

   Bahrain appeals court upholds jail for 13 opposition leaders

   Posted Jan 07th 2013, 06:19pm by AFP

   ... opposition leaders, seven of whom have been jailed for life, the lawyers said. Among those serving life terms is well-known activist Abdulhadi Khawaja, who last year embarked on a hunger strike ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1122143/bahrain-appeals-court-upholds-jail-13-opposition-leaders
3. News - China - LITERATURE

   Dissident Liao Yiwu's story of his ordeal in jail released in France

   Posted Jan 20th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... of those four years - a rare depiction of life in a Chinese jail - has finally come out in France after first being published in Germany and Taiwan. The book was a long time in the making and has ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1131904/dissident-liao-yiwus-story-his-ordeal-jail-released-france
4. News - China - JUSTICE

   Li Bifeng's 12-year jail term 'revenge' for helping dissident Liao Yiwu flee

   Posted Nov 20th 2012, 12:00am by Verna Yu

   ... County People's Court in Suining jailed Li, 48, for "contract fraud", fining him 300,000 yuan (HK$372,000), his lawyer Ma Xiaopeng said. The court indictment, posted online, said ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1086362/li-bifengs-12-year-jail-term-revenge-helping-dissident-liao-yiwu-flee
5. Jail break

   Posted Aug 29th 2006, 12:00am by Amrit Dhillon

   ... not a health farm, though it feels like one if you temporarily forget the high walls and watchtowers. It is Tihar Jail, the biggest prison in South and East Asia. Prison reformers from all over ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/561929/jail-break
6. News - China

   Blind activist says nephew could face unfair trial

   Posted Oct 13th 2012, 01:28pm by Reuters in Beijing

   ... News China China blind activist unfair trial Reuters in Beijing Blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng said on Saturday that Chinese ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1060249/blind-activist-says-nephew-could-face-unfair-trial
7. Questions remain over Li's death

   Posted Jul 14th 2012, 12:00am

   ... Hunan Autopsy Activist Activist Li Wangling Li Wangyang Having spent most of the 22 years since the June 4 crackdown in jail, labour activist Li ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/1006742/questions-remain-over-lis-death
8. News - China - CRIME

   Beijing policy shift on 'black jails' unlikely after charges for detentions

   Posted Dec 04th 2012, 12:00am by Teddy Ng

   ... News China Black Jail Beijing Petitioner Illegal detention China Teddy Ng teddy.ng@scmp.com Charges of illegal detention of petitioners filed against a number of people in Beijing have shed a rare light on the operation of so-called black jails in the capital. The case, which some reports have said was heard by a Beijing court late last month, is seen by legal experts ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1096851/beijing-policy-shift-black-jails-unlikely-after-charges-detentions
9. News - Asia - CAMBODIA

   Amnesty International decries 20-year jail term for activist Mam Sonando

   Posted Oct 02nd 2012, 12:00am by AFP

   ... outrageous". Mam Sonando, who heads the campaign group, the Association of Democrats, and whose station broadcasts programmes critical of the government, was jailed for peacefully exercising his ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1051837/amnesty-international-decries-20-year-jail-term-activist-mam-sonando
10. News - China - DISSENT

    Chen Guangcheng's family harassed, nephew denied medical treatment in jail

    Posted Apr 30th 2013, 08:05am by AGENCIES

    ... News China Chen Guangcheng Chen Kegui Chen Guangfu Human Rights Blind activist Agencies in Beijing Maltreatment of relative of Chen Guangcheng in prison seen as 'part of vendetta against family' The imprisoned nephew of exiled human rights activist Chen Guangcheng is suffering from appendicitis but being denied medical parole, his father said, in seemingly the latest ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1226495/health-fears-raised-chen-guangchengs-nephew

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