Instead of freeing prisoners of conscience when they complete a jail sentence, the Chinese authorities have for the past few months been using their supposed release to mask the fact that they have been placed under house arrest, or subjected to some other curtailment of their freedom or, worse still, forced disappearance.
They seem determined to never fully release such detainees, doing everything in their power to keep them isolated from their families and the rest of society by cutting off their means of communication or restricting their movements. They are also confining writers, lawyers, dissidents and human rights activists in a similar manner, blocking their phone lines and Internet connections in order to cut them off from the outside world.
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns such behaviour, which violates the right to justice and imposes a life sentence on every former prisoner.
The press freedom organization is today releasing on report on the various iniquitous methods used by China's "justice" system to achieve these ends. China is on the Reporters Without Borders list of Enemies of the Internet and is ranked 171st out of 178 countries in the Reporters Without Borders press freedom index.
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http://en.rsf.org/china-chinese-authorities-keep-tight-03-03-2011,39667.html