While she was incarcerated, the 74-year-old Chinese human rights lawyer Li Yuhan was subjected to inhumane abuse and mental torture. This included denying her essential medicines for serious diseases such as heart issues, forcing her to take ice baths and depriving her of food and water. Officers also humiliated her by urinating on her food.

Li suffered multiple heart attacks in prison and lost her ability to walk unaided. Her family’s multiple appeals to secure her release on medical parole were all rejected.

  •  tardigrada   ( @tardigrada@beehaw.org ) OP
    20•7 months ago

    @alcoholicorn

    Damn, that’s the kind of shit you’d expect in an American prison.

    The U.S. prison system is bad as far as I read, and it may often not be what you’d expect in a democracy, but what happened to Ms. Li Yuhan is arguably much likelier in a totalitarian country where human rights don’t matter.