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- humanrights@lemmy.sdf.org
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- humanrights@lemmy.sdf.org
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/35703806
crosspostato da: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/35703805
[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.
[…]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Lai
There’s something ironic about this…
“Master Skywalker, save me!”
Unfortunately, being against one authoritarian regime does not inherently guarantee the ability to correctly identify others, it would seem.
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Trump was president during the Hong Kong crackdown, they were begging for help.
It was a weird time back then because my dad, who is pro China, and I who lives in the west and otherwise on the pro democracy side, can agree on not liking Trump.
Could be worse (but not by much). Some protesters in 2019/20 had the UK and Hong Kong British colonial flag