2009-04-20

15 Unnatural Detention Center Deaths Reported This Year

高检院:今年接到在押者非正常死亡报告15

Xinhua News, 2009-04-20

In a recent TV and telephone conference, the Supreme People's Procuratorate “leaked” that it has received reports of 15 detention center deaths due to unnatural causes so far this year. A spokesperson from the Procuratorate's Prison Inspection Office blamed the deaths on both insufficient public security bureau supervision and weak oversight from the procuracy. Current efforts to establish information and surveillance cyber-networks in prisons directly linked to local procuratorate offices are aimed at preventing similar deaths.

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