China dictatorship continues to use massive jail system for democracy activists, minorities: China jails hold Tibetan, Uighur, Falun Gong and any dissident

Exiled Chinese author recounts prison ‘hell’

Liao Yiwu clearly recalls the moment when he first stepped into a Chinese jail. He was stripped naked by inmates who then searched his anus with chopsticks — the beginning of a four-year prison ordeal. “I only stayed naked in front of everyone six to seven minutes, but I felt I had lost all dignity…