Comment on 'The plight of Jimmy Lai shames us all:' Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and British citizen Jimmy Lai now exceeded 1,600 days in solitary confinement, yet has committed no crime

freagle@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Dictatorships use solitary confinement as a form of torture

Solitary confinement is a form of torture. It’s torture when China does it, it’s torture when the USA does it. The difference isn’t which country is a dictatorship. The difference is that the USA does it to infants and children after ripping them away from their parents who are seeking asylum and does it to prisoners when their prison guards have their ego bruised, while China is using it on a literal enemy of the state trained and funded by a foreign government with a long history of being an adversary.

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