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The term 'Chinese fat prison' was popularised by the Instagram user eggeats, an Australian living in Japan and China. Based ...

Australian video producer Matthew Radalj spoke publicly about the five horrific years he spent within Beijing No. 2 Prison, a jail notorious for its foreign prisoners. He told of a brutal system of ...

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