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 the names of those who have been approved for death penalty, those who have been suspended from death penalty, those who have been sentenced to life imprisonment, and those who have not been sentenced, covers 1,117 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience of various ethnic groups, including Chinese, Tibetan, Uyghur, Kazakh, Hui, Mongolian, Korean, and Manchu, among whom 159 have been detained without being 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 people 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 continues, and the persecution of religious figures by the Chinese Communist Party authorities has become more and more serious since Xi Jinping took power; the persecution of Falun Gong has not abated in the slightest, and Falun Gong is still one of the groups most severely repressed by the authorities.
According to the Rights Defense Network, 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 updated information, this report reveals the poor human rights situation in 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 pay constant attention and appeal until they are freed.
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