cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/inforeport/p/1265687/brazil-adds-political-education-to-school-curriculum

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Report downloads in English (pdf) and in Chinese (pdf).

This publication is a sister report to Behind Bars: A Survey on Detention Centre Conditions in China (in English, pdf), which follows the same survey, interview and case study format to look at human rights failings in the country’s detention system.

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To mark Mandela Day this weekend, Safeguard Defenders is releasing a new study that reveals exploitative working conditions, political coercion and physical and psychological abuse in China’s sprawling prison system.

Behind Bars: a survey on prison conditions in China, based on a survey of 59 former prisoners, paints a grim picture with respondents describing abuses and violations of both international law and Chinese law and regulations. Its findings should be a stark reminder for foreign governments considering security agreements or extradition arrangements with Beijing that such cooperation is incompatible with fundamental human rights principles.

Mandela Day, held on 18 July (on Nelson Mandela’s birthday) honours his life’s work fighting for social justice and human rights. The day is also an important date for prisoner rights—Mandela spent 27 years as a political prisoner in South Africa during the Apartheid years, and the key UN document on the treatment of prisoners was officially renamed the Nelson Mandela Rules in 2015.

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In addition to the survey, Behind Bars also draws on a longform interview with former Australian detainee Matthew Radalj, a comparative analysis of domestic and international law and a case study of a large prison in central China that has been at the heart of recent international allegations of forced labour.

“The truth is that xxx prison is not a prison with factories, but factories with a prison,” one survey respondent wrote, adding, “ In Chinese prisons, guilty and innocent are treated just like animals, with not even basic rights.”

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At a time when China’s authoritarian surveillance state has been deleting sources of public data and made it more dangerous for people to share their testimony, Behind Bars shines a light on what really goes on in Chinese prisons. It is an important addition to the body of research on the widespread rights violations perpetrated on those incarcerated in the country.

With China typically sentencing around 850,000 people to prison time every year in one of their 680+ prisons, the scale of abuse is potentially massive. Estimates put the number of people serving time in China at around 2.34 million, likely making China the country with the largest number of prisoners serving time in the world.

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One respondent wrote, “I was not treated like a human being at all.”

Radalj said that when he was in solitary confinement, he was Tasered “almost on a daily basis” and that he was “chained for the entire 194 days” around his leg.

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The Chinese prison system heavily emphasizes ideological education and expects prisoners to produce thought reports, such as letters of repentance, statements of confession and essays outlining support and praise for the CCP.

More than three quarters of respondents said they had to write thought reports when they were in prison. Education provided for prisoners was more often propaganda in nature and focused on CCP ideological education rather than being vocational in nature and helping them develop skills so they can find work upon release.

Prisoners who refused to write thought reports or whose written works were not deemed sufficiently “politically correct” or remorseful were typically punished, for example by not being able to apply for sentence commutation, having their shopping quota cut, the cancellation or reduction of time for a family visit or phone call and even physical punishment and/or solitary confinement. One respondent said they were denied medical attention because they did not write a confession letter.

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Soldiers in Poland will be able to pick up their uniforms from their nearest parcel locker rather than having to collect them from military stores under a new scheme being rolled out by the armed forces, with private logistics giant InPost responsible for deliveries.

The move is a “simple, practical change” that will make life easier for troops, said a deputy defence minister. The CEO of InPost, which is Europe’s largest operator of parcel lockers, praised the decision to make “dual use” of private infrastructure for national-security purposes.

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Hi, I've been having this problem with my system for like a week where it just locks up and has to be hard restarted. The screen freezes, input devices are unresponsive, bluetooth disconnects, sftp server stops etc. This can happen anytime; while I'm moving the mouse, in a game, while idling.. And the worst part is that when I check the journal afterwards there's absolutely nothing there. No errors, no coredumps, no other messages (from the freeze time)

I've run the aur malware checker and it's clean. I've also updated the system a couple times and it feels like the frequency of freezes only increased over time.

That makes me suspicious of a hardware failure, but I've had similarly strange problems before and every time it was a software problem. I've started a memtest (clean so far) but I'm not sure what else to do on that front. What component's failure would result in a freeze, but not a crash or any errors?

System is zen4 with nvidia graphics.

Anyone experiencing something similar? Are there new driver / system incompatibilities that I should know about? How would you debug this? Is there a way to figure out the origin of the freeze despite the empty journal?

Auto stürzt am Rostocker Stadthafen in Warnow: Identität der beiden Todesopfer geklärt

Neue Details zum tödlichen Autounfall am Rostocker Stadthafen: Wie die Polizei am Donnerstag (16. Juli) mitteilte, handelt es sich bei den beiden Insassen um ein Rentnerpaar. Der 88-Jährige und die 87-Jährige kämen aus Rostock.

Ihr Auto war am Mittwochnachmittag im Bereich der Haedge-Halbinsel auf Höhe eines Krans ins Wasser gestürzt und innerhalb weniger Minuten gesunken. Taucher bargen zunächst die Leiche der Frau. Als das Auto aus dem Wasser geholt wurde, entdeckten Einsatzkräfte den Mann im Fahrzeug.

Polizei schließt bisher nur Straftat aus

Wie es zu dem Unglück kommen konnte, ist noch unklar. Die Polizei hat ein Todesermittlungsverfahren eingeleitet, um zu klären, ob es gesundheitliche Probleme gegeben hat. Auch ein möglicher Suizid werde geprüft. Denkbar seien ebenso technische Mängel am Auto. Bereits ausgeschlossen werden könne eine Straftat, so ein Polizeisprecher.