Posted on 04/12/2018 11:18:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
China must stop airing forced confessions from human rights activists, a campaign group has said in a report that details how detainees are coerced into delivering scripted remarks.
There have been at least 45 forced televised confessions in China since 2013, according to the report from Safeguard Defenders, a human rights NGO in Asia.
Since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012 there has been a wholesale crackdown on civil society and dissent, leading to hundreds of arrests targeting human rights activists and the lawyers that defend them. The practice of forced confessions was especially prominent during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, a decade of political upheaval during which “counter-revolutionaries” were paraded through the streets and forced to confess to their alleged crimes.
“These ‘confessions’ are about the crushing of dissent wherever it may arise,” David Bandurski, a researcher at the University of Hong Kong’s China Media Project, said in a conversation on the website China File last year. “The supposed crimes are of middling importance relative to the act of submission itself, the knuckling under to authority. In a word, then, this is political bullying.
“As Xi Jinping trumpets the principle of rule of law, these clearly forced admissions telegraph exactly the opposite message.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Once there was this kid who
Got into an accident and couldn’t come to school
But when he finally came back
His hair had turned from black into bright white
He said that it was from when
The cars had smashed him so hard
They threaten you by telling you they have “brainwashing” techniques that will leave you a non-person. You will be erased; no history, no name, no memories. A living zombie. After a week you confess or they finish you off. Nice people, the Chinese.
“After a week you confess or they finish you off.”
And maybe harvest your organs while you are awake and without benefit of anesthesia. The testimony I have seen on this is blood curdling.
Doesn’t this feel A bit like Cosby trials?
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