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.
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But the community we’re in is on lemmy.world. I think that means the entire community won’t federate to them. (As posts first go to the community, then are federated out from the community to other instances.) that’s my understanding anyway. Like my post coming from .zip will first go to the com on .world, then federate out to others like .ee, but bear will then never see this (even though .zip is still fedded with bear, which I know because I still see their shit from here in other coms.)
For what it’s worth, this is also my understanding, as the administrator and operator of this Lemmy instance.