The Rights Defense Network released the “Monthly Report on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience in Custody in Mainland China” on April 30.
The report, which is categorized by name from death penalty being approved, suspended death sentence, life imprisonment to fixed-term imprisonment, and detention without sentence, covers a total of 1,160 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience of various ethnic groups, including Han, Tibetan, Uyghur, Kazakh, Hui, Mongolian, Korean, and Manchu, of whom 165 are in detention without sentence.
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, forced confinement in psychiatric hospitals, and some have even been tortured to death while in detention; the repression of religious figures by the authorities 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 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 regular statistics and the release of up-to-date information, this report reveals the current poor human rights profile and the tragic situation of prisoners of conscience and political prisoners in mainland China, 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.
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