Rights Defense Network Releases “Monthly Report on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience in Mainland China” Involving 1,089 People

The Rights Defense Network recently released the “Monthly Report on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience in Custody in Mainland China”.

The report, which is categorized by real names, includes 1,089 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience of various ethnic groups, including Chinese, Tibetan, Uyghur, Kazakh, Hui, Mongolian, Korean, and Manchu, and 161 prisoners of conscience who have not yet been sentenced.

In particular, the report notes that the current situation of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in mainland China is extremely harsh: the Chinese Communist authorities have imposed horrific sentences on Uighur and Kazakh elites and people. Torture and ill-treatment remain widespread and severe, and the health of many political prisoners and prisoners of conscience is a cause for concern. Many of them have been tortured to extract confessions, tortured or subjected to prolonged inhumane abuse while in detention, forcibly confined to psychiatric hospitals, and some have even been tortured to death; the repression of religious figures continues; according to available information on prisoners of conscience in detention, the persecution of religious figures by the CCP authorities has become more and more serious under Xi Jinping‘s administration; the persecution of Falun Gong has not diminished in the slightest. Falun Gong remains one of the groups suffering the most severe repression by the CCP authorities at the moment.

The Rights Defense Network emphasizes that the situation of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in a country is one of its most important human rights indicators. Through statistics and the release of the latest information, this report reveals the poor human rights situation in mainland China and the tragic situation of prisoners of conscience and political prisoners, and seeks to raise the international community’s memory of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in China, and to give continuous attention and appeal until they are freed.