'The plight of Jimmy Lai shames us all', Benedict Rogers — Hong Kong Watch
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It is time to clearly say to Beijing: enough is enough 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 e

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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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  • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    5 days 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.

      • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        5 days ago

        He collaborated with war Hawks in the USA like Bolton and Pompeo as part of his campaign as a British national to fight against the return of Hong Kong to the governance of China, spread anti-chinese propaganda, and politically organizing against the state.

        That’s all that’s needed. If a British national who lived in California and built up relationships with Russian and Iranian leaders was organizing politically to have California secede from the USA you can be damned sure that person would be in prison.

          • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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            5 days ago

            He is a media owner, likely funded by NED/USAID, advocating for sedition. Why do you play dumb?

          • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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            5 days ago

            This article that you posted is you parroting propaganda. Try not to immediately believe everything Western media tells you and try not to immediately dismiss anything that runs counter to the Western propaganda line.

          • Horse {they/them}@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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            5 days ago

            he had private meetings with Pence, Pompeo, and Bolton while being a prominent proponent of a protest movement heavily boosted and funded by states hostile to China

            an analogue would be a rich businessman affiliated with the Scottish independence movement meeting with Mishustin, Lavrov, and Belousov,

            If you just parrot propaganda, I won’t respond anymore.

            this is very ironic