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  • They beat me for two days straight in the first police station that I was in. I hadn't slept or eaten or had water for 48 hours and then I was forced to sign a big stack of documents

    Doubt.

    Court documents indicate that this worked at least to some extent, earning him a four-year sentence.

    Where? There's no citation.

    "We were banned from showering or cleaning ourselves, sometimes for months at a time. Even the toilet could be used only at specific allotted times, and they were filthy - waste from the toilets above would constantly drip down on to us."

    Doubt.

    I highly doubt that a prison supposedly only housing foreigners (news flash, it doesn't as per a 2009 NY Times article on a chinese "dissident") would have US/Israeli conditions. The lack of any primary documents indicates this.

    This is likely a completely fabricated story, on the level of social credit scores

  • I was in a chybese prison one times for 4 years. I barely survived. they made me poop in my dad and then made me eat my dad. every day for 5 years. I tried to pray to church and they made me have gay thoughts and then eat my dad again every day for 6 years.

    it was the worst time of my life and we are all so lucky I americaustralia to have landlords and bankers to protect us from chamese prizms and gommunistic literacy programs.

    I love you Elon musk and landlord. thank you God bless.

    Jeff Blonk IV Radio Free Asian & Correspondant

  • My biggest question is: the earliest mention of this guy being in Beijing No. 2 prison was in February, when this was first reported. Any mentions previous to this is some mixology articles that he was interviewed for back in 2016. At no point in between these two dates, does the media report that an Australian national has been falsely detained in China, which would be a huge story. It's only after he's been released do we hear that this happened. Also somehow his father picks him up at the airport despite the guy not having access to phones.

  • Australia is going to make up a lot more stories like this, then use the stories as an excuse to make it illegal to travel to China, so they can push out even more bullshit to stifle any reasonable opinions about China, so we can destroy ourselves for our American masters in a pointless war with China, aren't they?

  • The same if you didn't make your bed properly to military standard or didn't place your toothbrush in the right place in the cell.

    Obvious lie. There's only one shared toothbrush and you get to use it once a year. Caught out in their own false narratives.

  • @groKKK@hexbear.net is this true?

    • The claims made by this article are certainly harsh and deserve to be examined in detail. Most of the article is based on the single testimonial of Matthew Ridalj, an Australian citizen who was apparently imprisoned for five years in China; due to this, most claims aren't actually verifiable. Furthermore, no other prisoners are named, with only terms such as "prisoners," "another prisoner" and "the Nigerian inmates" being used: the BBC claims that this is to protect the anonymity of former prisoners who are frightful of repercussion, but it is just as likely that these testimonies weren't tied to a name due to how unreliable they are.

      On the topic of white genocide in South Africa, the BBC has instead downplayed the fears of the white minority in the country by frequently publishing pieces calling the theory mere fiction. This corroborates the declarations of the South African government, as well as the conclusions of its judiciary system so far; however, the testimonies of many white South African farmers, who aren't afraid of being named in articles by independent media sources, contradict these mainstream sources. It is important to maintain a balanced and unbiased view, and thus to treat all positions equally until the situation is clearer.

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