Hong Kong's prisons department has refuted allegations of physical and sexual violence in its jails, as well as insisting that – despite a ruthless crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement – it has no political prisoners.
A report published by the Washington-based Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation this week alleged that political prisoners faced physical violence, were forced into solitary confinement, subjected to round-the-clock monitoring, extra screening and forced to attend political indoctrination courses.
