China’s foreign minister waded into the mystery over the disappearance of one of the country’s most prominent human rights lawyers, but his remarks Tuesday shed little light on the lawyer’s fate. -- This is the same guy who the government said was "working" in Xinjiang last month. Guess that wasn't true.
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Members of an UNAUTHORIZED church, sentenced to prison in Linfen, China. Linfen Fushan Church members were sentenced to terms of up to seven years.
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In an ongoing bid to increase prison transparency and rehabilitate inmates, one of Sichuan's prisons held the country's first-ever prison wedding last Friday, November 6.
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I'm a sucker for personal accounts. This account of prison life in Beijing is a good example of why.
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A UNIVERSITY student was sentenced to three years' prison for accidentally killing a woman when he landed on her while trying to commit suicide by jumping from his 7th floor dormitory in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, Southern Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.
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Oh, surely there must have been much bigger choirs elsewhere. Yes, but this one was organized by the Hefei City Prison Bureau and the choir members are prisoners currently serving time. It is believed that this is the biggest prison choir ever in China.
read more »China says it is to tighten control of its prisons after cases of suspicious deaths in detention came to light.
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A man has been given three days in detention for breaking a non-smoking rule on the high-speed rail line between Tianjin and Beijing, Chinese state media say.
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A former Xinjiang government official was sentenced this week to 4 years in prison for the unpremeditated murder of two watermelon growers while he was wild boar hunting last July. Thankfully, unlike many of his contemporaries, he has owned up to his mistake.
read more »In mid-90s China, things were still pretty strict. And this foreigner would have been toast if it wasn't for the power of guanxi...
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