{"id":29676,"date":"2012-09-12T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T08:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=29676 "},"modified":"2012-09-12T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T08:36:00","slug":"29676-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=29676","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Political Elite Receive Better Accommodations in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"
When the political tide turned a decade later, Mao’s widow, Jiang Qing, was sent to Qincheng. Harry Wu, a U.S.-based human rights activist who recently published a book on Qincheng, said Jiang was placed in a two-room suite with a private bathroom, possibly the best Qincheng could provide.<\/span><\/div>
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Conditions improved. Dai, the journalist, said gradually she was given newspapers and books from the jail library — William Shirer’s “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” popular martial arts novels by Louis Cha and the Chinese classic “The Dream of the Red Chamber.”<\/span><\/div>
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Dai was allowed a two-hour break every day, though she was disappointed to find herself alone in a walled courtyard, watched over by guards. “Like caged lions and tigers, most of us walked back and forth impatiently,” she wrote.<\/span><\/div>
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Bao recalled the walls dividing the courtyards were so thick that guards could patrol on top of them. “They wore an ammunition belt, but I didn’t know if they were armed,” Bao said.<\/span><\/div>
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An egg was added to his breakfast of bread and porridge after his wife complained to Jiang Zemin, then the party’s secretary general, Bao said. His family also got him a mosquito net, and sent him books, which he received after they were checked page by page to make sure they contained no unauthorized correspondence, Bao said.<\/span><\/div>
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Qincheng got a remodeling in the mid-’90s to make way for a new breed of prisoners: senior officials who had grown used to lavish liftestyles and were being ostensibly purged for untrammeled graft. In 1996, when Bao returned to a Qincheng prison cell after spending time in a prison-affiliated hospital, his accommodations were much grander.<\/span><\/div>
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His cell had a sofa, and the plank bed propped up by wooden benches was replaced with a mattress bed. The beddings were no longer white.<\/span><\/div>
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<div>Not far from Beijing, Qincheng Prison boasts cells often contain a sofa and a private bathroom, and are typically single-occupancy rooms. &nbsp;Some prisoners here receive special food, and the harsh labor required in a typical Chinese prison is absent.<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}