{"id":1354,"date":"2011-11-20T02:24:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T02:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/20\/testimony-of-torture-chinese-dissident-exposes\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:30:01","slug":"testimony-of-torture-chinese-dissident-exposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/20\/testimony-of-torture-chinese-dissident-exposes\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimony of Torture: Chinese Dissident Exposes Prison Brutality – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Scoop.it<\/a> – Rights & Liberties<\/a>
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Chinese poet Liao Yiwu recently moved to Germany, where his books are best-sellers. His self-imposed exile has allowed him to finally publish his memoir, which reveals the abuses and torture he suffered during his years in prison.
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Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties Chinese poet Liao Yiwu recently moved to Germany, where his books are best-sellers. His self-imposed exile has allowed him to finally publish his memoir, which reveals the abuses and torture he suffered during his … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1580,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/29\/the-systematic-torture-in-bahrain-continues-with\/","url_meta":{"origin":1354,"position":0},"title":"The Systematic torture in Bahrain continues with full impunity on torturers | Bahrain Center for Human Rights","author":"aslam","date":"June 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesBecause torture is a peremptory norm of international law, Al-Khalifa frames his admission of torture in a way which makes it seem rare, justified and an exception to the rule. 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