Death of ‘barefoot lawyer’ puts focus on China’s treatment of political prisoners

Critics says Ji Sizun’s fate shows prison terms in China are increasingly becoming death sentences

In June, Ji Sizun received the news that he had won a prestigious human rights distinction, the Cao Shunli Memorial Award, in honour of the veteran Chinese activist who died in 2014 in police custody, after being denied needed medical treatment for months.

It would be a little more than one month until he himself died while under the watch of state security.

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