CCP secret prisons

[Mirolyuba]

Activist says guard at unofficial jail in China capital admits he raped young detainee
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Thu Nov 5, 4:51 AM


By Cara Anna, The Associated Press


BEIJING - A guard at an unofficial jail in the Chinese capital has pleaded guilty to raping a young detainee, an activist said Thursday, in a case that has put the spotlight on the "black jails" where a growing number of people seeking justice from the government end up.

The guard told a district court Wednesday he raped the 21-year-old student in August after she came to Beijing to ask the central government for help, local human rights activist Liu Dejun said.

Liu was not in court but was told of the guilty plea by people who attended the one-day trial. A verdict is expected within 30 days.

"He ruined my life," the woman told journalists after the trial, the Beijing News reported Thursday.

The woman, from central Anhui province, had been expelled from college because of poor exam scores and came to Beijing to ask the government to reinstate her.

Thousands of Chinese come to Beijing every year to air complaints ignored by local authorities, but human rights groups say hundreds are rounded up, often near the complaints office, by provincial officials who fear the complaints may get them in trouble.

The government has denied that the "black jails" exist, and the term was not mentioned at the trial, Liu said.

In August, the ruling Communist Party ordered local officials to meet regularly with people complaining of injustices, in an effort to stop them from coming to Beijing.

The woman escaped the "black jail" with about 50 other detainees after the guard fled following the rape. The Associated Press visited the guesthouse just hours after the alleged rape and found a filthy store room with metal-frame bunk beds, a squat toilet and a bolted door where the woman and others were reportedly held.

The night she arrived, she said, the guard forced his way onto her upper bunk and raped her. When the detainees broke through the wooden door and ran away, they took two bloody sheets as evidence.

The activist Liu said Thursday that the guard, 26-year-old Xu Jian, pleaded guilty to rape Wednesday in Fengtai District Court.

Police told the court the woman had mental problems and has limited ability to defend herself, the Beijing News reported - meaning the guard's sentence could be more severe.

The woman's lawyer demanded compensation of 105,000 yuan ($15,375), but Xu said he's poor and will compensate as much as he can, Liu said in a phone interview.

The woman also gave the court a written request for government compensation, Liu said.

She "was upset with the court," he added, because she was interrupted when she tried to speak and the judge wouldn't explain the questions she couldn't understand.

The court dismissed charges against the guesthouse where the rape happened and provincial authorities, the China Daily newspaper reported Thursday.

The telephone at the court rang unanswered Thursday.

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Associated Press researcher Xi Yue contributed to this report.

[Mirolyuba]

Note how the Chinese Communist Party "puppet court" finds no liability for the provincial authorities who actually RUN the secret prison.
The CCP is always utterly blameless in the CCP "puppet courts", of course.

[Mirolyuba]

I see the lackeys of the CCP that infest this forum lack the spine to comment on the latest abuses by their masters.

It must be the mention of the "secret prisons" the Chinese Communist Party runs......

or just their "usual" fear of the truth!

[Mirolyuba]

See "RayHole" frantically boardwashing now?

Ha Ha Ha Ha!

[Mirolyuba]

and not one of his pals has the courage to comment.

Poor China.

[Mirolyuba]

Shining a light on China’s secret “Black Jails”
By: Phelim Kine
When 15-year-old Wang Xiaomei made the long trip from Gansu province to Beijing last year, she hoped to find justice for her family. Instead, she met with abuse.
First, Wang was abducted by plainclothes Gansu officials, who imprisoned her incommunicado for two months in a “black jail”—an illegal detention facility.
Two days before her September 13, 2008 release, Wang’s captors beat her so badly they knocked out one of her teeth. Wang’s victimizers have never been brought to justice.
Worse still, Wang’s experience—which stands in stark contrast to the Chinese government’s claims of fealty to the rule of law—is not unique. A new Human Rights Watch report released today,“An Alleyway in Hell: China’s Abusive ‘Black Jails’,” exposes the routine and severe human rights abuses perpetrated against detainees in these secret facilities.
Our research shows that Wang is just one of estimated thousands of people abducted off the streets of Chinese cities and held incommunicado for weeks or months. Inside these unlawful, secret detention facilities detainees are beaten, sexually abused, deprived of food, sleep and medical care, and subject to theft, extortion and intimidation at the hands of their guards.
And, as Wang’s case shows, children aren’t spared the dangers and indignities of black jail detention. These facilities exist outside of China’s official prison system, and are often located in state-owned hotels, nursing homes and psychiatric hospitals.
The former black jail detainees we interviewed were petitioners–people from mainly rural areas who come to Beijing and other cities in search of legal redress for violations including illegal land seizures and police torture. The petitioning system, which exists in parallel to formal judicial structures, is entirely legal, and explicitly permits people to take their grievances to the highest levels of government.
So why are petitioners being treated this way? Black jails emerged in 2003 after the Chinese government abolished laws permitting the arbitrary detention of any “undesirables.” But that progress was undercut by the introduction at the local level of guidelines that limit local officials’ prospects for promotions or raises if petitioners from their areas carried on their efforts to find justice in larger cities.
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What might have been intended as an incentive to make local officials deal with local grievances became an incentive for those officials to keep petitioners off the streets and invest considerable resources in achieving that goal. Plainclothes thugs commonly known as retrievers, or jiefang renyuan, locate and abduct petitioners in Beijing and other cities for bounties as high as $250 per person. Operators of black jail facilities reap daily cash payments from local governments of up to $29 per detainee, helping to perpetuate black jail abuses.
Rather than crack down on these facilities, the central Chinese government denies that they even exist. In an April 2009 Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs press conference, a MOFA official responded to a foreign correspondent’s query about black jails by insisting,“Things like this do not exist in China.”
In June 2009, the Chinese government asserted in the Outcome Report of the United Nations’ Human Rights Commission’s Universal Periodic Review of China’s human rights record that,“There are no black jails in the country.”
Such denials make a mockery of the commitment in the first-ever National Human Rights Action Plan that,“The Chinese government unswervingly pushes forward the cause of human rights in China.” The Chinese government’s credibility would be considerably enhanced by acknowledging that black jails do indeed exist, shutting them down, liberating detainees, and bringing the perpetrators to justice.
External actors also have a role to play. Many governments and international organizations fund Chinese legal reform projects, and they too should demand that the Chinese government put an end to these abuses and that their victims be fairly compensated.
No less a civil rights and legal aid luminary than U.S. President Barack Obama, who will make his first trip as President to China on November 16-18, has a golden opportunity to raise the cases of black jail detainees and explain that an independent judicial system in China is of significant consequence to U.S.-China relations.
He should also repeat to his Chinese hosts–and the Chinese people—his September 2009 message to the United Nations General Assembly:“True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home.”

[Mirolyuba]

This also illustrates quite clearly that the CCP regime cannot be trusted to live up to its international agreements.

The CCP thinks that it can lie to the world as easily as it can lie to its own people.

But it is very wrong.

[Mirolyuba]

“True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home.”

I guess that China will never be a leader among nations so long as the CCP regime is in place, as it can do nothing but "goon the people" to "cling to power".

[Viet cong]

If there's such a secret prisonm, why it floating on the internet?

Either prisoner escaped or the guards was brided

[Mirolyuba]

Escape. Read the articles.

[Boasting indian]

Mirolyuba wrote:

Escape. Read the articles.

Don't debate this sorry ass Crazy,Cranky poo CCP,

Step in at your own risk. He'll throw shots at you, Ha Ha Ha Ha
at you, one crazy sorry ass Tibetan racist.

[Mirolyuba]

Yes, "Viet Cong".

It is far, far SAFER for you to follow orders and hide in the toilet with the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and all their lackeys!

Ha Ha Ha!

[Boasting indian]

Mirolyuba wrote:

Yes, "Viet Cong".
It is far, far SAFER for you to follow orders and hide in the toilet with the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and all their lackeys!
Ha Ha Ha!

You're so vulgar, all these toilet business. A good
reflection upon yourself. I was right, you're full of shits.

For a Tibetan that lives in Canada but wants to fight CCP
using a Chinese made keyboard. you act like a coward,
talk like a hi caste racist Tibetan.

You should join the Lama clans instead you're surrounded
yourself w comfort & wealth. you're so brave.

[Mirolyuba]

go back to your toilet to hide now.

things seem to be backed-up so badly that shiht is coming out of your mouth again!

[Boasting indian]

Mirolyuba wrote:

go back to your toilet to hide now.
things seem to be backed-up so badly that shiht is coming out of your mouth again!

Again, more vulgarity, you're a disgrace to your culture!

Need I say more. Above shows it.

[Mirolyuba]

The CCP thinks that it can lie to the world as easily as it can lie to its own people.

But it is very wrong.