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Throughout the ages, criminal activities in society have been punished by the ruling entity of such societies with various degree of justice.
The laws are sometimes ambiguous and criminals are adept at becoming the lawmakers or rulers themselves. The US prison population is quite large compare to other countries. In some countries, the death penalty is still used for crime against the state , even if the crime is as petty as not to follow the religious edict of such nation. The history of convicts is full of unfair treatment of people and of fabricated conviction. The styles of modern imprisonment are differing in countries, and much have the same purpose: make the convicted people suffer. The case of Julian Assange is special in this regard. He hasn t been convicted of any crimes, except expose the truth.
Photo provided by Niu Tengyu s family
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong are preparing to transfer website administrator Niu Tengyu to a different jail at the start of his 14-year jail term for allegedly posting a photo of the daughter of ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary Xi Jinping online.
Niu, 22, was jailed in the southern province of Guangdong after someone posted a photo of Xi Mingze to meme site Zhina Wiki, an act that was later blamed by police on Niu s Vulgar Wiki.
Niu will soon be transferred from the Maoming No. 1 Detention Center to Yangjiang Prison to serve his sentence, his mother, who gave only a nickname Coco, told RFA.
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Authorities in the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi have rejected an official complaint from family of detained rights lawyer Chang Weiping, who is currently under investigation for subversion of state power after he attended a December 2019 gathering of dissidents in the southeastern city of Xiamen.
Chang s wife Chen Zijuan said the family had complained that he had been tortured during a period of incommunicado detention known as residential surveillance at a designated location (RSDL) as well as about the way in which police were using interviews with people he had known to try to build a case against him.
Niu Tengyu family
The family of Guangdong-based website user Niu Tengyu, who is currently serving a 14-year jail term for allegedly posting a photo of the daughter of ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary Xi Jinping, say he has been injured in detention.
Niu, 22, was jailed in the southern province of Guangdong after someone posted a photo of Xi Mingze to meme site Zhina Wiki, an act that was later blamed by police on Niu s Vulgar Wiki.
His mother, who asked to remain anonymous, said she had visited him at the Maoming No. 1 Detention Center on Monday, their first meeting since his detention in August 2019.