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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) teams visited Phu Quoc Prison in 1969 [2] and 1972. [3] The ICRC found that many POWs showed signs of inadequate food supplies, poor medical care and physical beatings. [1]: 241 The prison was closed after the Fall of Saigon in April 1975.
Prisons in Hong Kong comprise correctional facilities in Hong Kong, a city and special administrative region of China. They are managed by the Correctional Services Department . Facilities have different purposes, including training centres, [ 1 ] detention centres, rehabilitation centres, and drug addiction treatment centres.
As of 2018 there was a daily average of 8,310 prisoners in the Hong Kong prison system. The prisons had an occupancy rate of 81.6 per cent, while training, detention, rehabilitation, and drug addiction treatment centres had an occupancy rate of 30.8 per cent.
A Hong Kong man was sentenced Thursday to almost six years in prison for alleged involvement in a foiled plot mostly by high school students to bomb court buildings following 2019 anti-government ...
Eight Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were sentenced to up to 14 months in prison on Monday for organising, taking part in and inciting participation in a banned vigil last year for victims of ...
More than 10,000 Hong Kongers were arrested during the 2019 political unrest. As the mostly young people trickle out, their future remains uncertain in a city firmly under the grip of ...
In March 2005, the second Guangdong-Hong Kong Prison Forum was held in Hong Kong. In the same month, the Lo Wu Correctional Facility closed and was later moved to another location. The Castle Peak Bay Immigration Center opened in August 2005. In December 2005, the oldest penal institution in Hong Kong, Victoria Prison, was shut down. [15]
HONG KONG (Reuters) -A Hong Kong court sentenced a barrister and activist to 15 months in prison on Tuesday for inciting an unauthorised assembly to commemorate those who died in China's 1989 ...