'The plight of Jimmy Lai shames us all:' Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and British citizen Jimmy Lai now exceeded 1,600 days in solitary confinement, yet has committed no crime (www.hongkongwatch.org)

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[Op-ed by Benedict Rogers, Senior Director of Fortify Rights and a co-founder and trustee of Hong Kong Watch.]

Dictatorships use solitary confinement as a form of torture, designed to break the prisoner’s spirit. Under international law, “prolonged solitary confinement” is defined as exceeding 15 days.

British citizen and 77 year-old media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai, in jail in Hong Kong, has now exceeded 1,600 days in solitary confinement, yet has committed no crime.

He has already served several prison sentences on multiple trumped-up charges, including 13 months for lighting a candle and saying a prayer at a vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Dictatorships use solitary confinement as a form of torture

Solitary confinement is a form of torture. It's torture when China does it, it's torture when the USA does it. The difference isn't which country is a dictatorship. The difference is that the USA does it to infants and children after ripping them away from their parents who are seeking asylum and does it to prisoners when their prison guards have their ego bruised, while China is using it on a literal enemy of the state trained and funded by a foreign government with a long history of being an adversary.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

What makes him an 'enemy of the state'? What crime did he commit? There is absolutely nothing.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I get that you dislike China, but sedition is a crime everywhere.

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