PhotoBlog - detention

Oct

2012

7:29am, EDT

Chinese authorities allow rare glimpse inside detention facility

Alexander F. Yuan / AP

Police officers guard a hospital ward while visiting journalists are led on a government-organized tour at the Number Two Detention Center in Beijing on Oct. 25, 2012.

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Seen through a metal fence gate, a prosecutor walks out of a building of the Number One Detention Center.

Journalists were taken on a government-organized tour of a detention center in Beijing on Thursday. The rare access to the facility, which has capacity for 1,000 inmates, was offered to the international media as China prepares for the Communist Party Congress, which is due to open on Nov. 8.

Detention centers in China are primarily for people who have been detained by police on suspicion of committing a criminal offense and are awaiting trial.

-- The Associated Press, Agence France Presse

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A paramilitary policeman looks at foreign journalists as he guards an entrance to the Number Two Detention Center. The slogan on the wall reads "No small matter in detention center, everything concerns safety."

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A chair specially designed to restrain the inmate is set behind bars in an interrogation room at the Number One Detention Center.

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Pharmacists work inside a hospital wing at the No.1 Detention Center during a government guided tour.

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Police officers wait to perform a security check on visiting journalists outside the gate of the Number Two Detention Center.

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Toys, photos of psychiatrists, and a chair are arranged in a psychology consulting room at the Number One Detention Center.

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A paramilitary guard stands at a security door inside the No.1 Detention Center.

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Jun

2011

5:09am, EDT

Pakistani refugees released from detention in Thailand

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A Thai immigration police officer directs Pakistani refugees released on bail to a waiting bus after their detention at the immigration detention center in Bangkok on June 6. A group of almost a hundred Pakistani refugees and asylum seekers, including several dozen children and a baby born in detention, were released on bail.

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A Pakistani woman sits on a bus after being released on bail from detention at an immigration detention centre in Bangkok on June 6.

Damir Sagolj / Reuters

Pakistani refugees, members of the Ahmadiyya, an Islamic minority sect, pray as they leave a detention centre on a bus in Bangkok on June 6.

Damir Sagolj / Reuters

Asfa, a one-month-old girl born in a detention center, is pictured among bags as her father, a Pakistani refugee who is a member of the Ahmadiyya, an Islamic minority sect, stands in their new accommodation after their release from detention in Bangkok on June 6.

Channel News Asia has more on this story:

Ninety-six people, most of whom were arrested in December, will be released from a Bangkok detention centre on Monday, an immigration officer said.

The detained group are from Pakistan's Ahmadi Muslim community, who suffer violence and persecution in their home country, according to the Thai Committee for Refugees, which helped organise the release.