China No Longer Forbids Prison Homosexuals.

Feng Jiancang, director of the judicial human rights research office of the Institute of crime prevention of China's Ministry of justice, said at the fourth Beijing Forum on human rights 22, in recent years, China has safeguards criminal suspects, defendants, criminals and prison inmates. personality Progress has been made in respect of the right to dignity, including the gradual promotion of lethal injections, the prohibition of homosexual and hair coloring in prison, and no need to "head and squat" in prison.

"Prison is a place for reforming prisoners and a part of the state machine. It needs to reflect the unique dignity." Feng Jiancang said, "but if the prison authorities neglect the respect for the dignity and human rights of prisoners, it is not desirable."

Feng Jiancang said that even the criminals who are about to execute the death penalty should pay attention to the protection of their dignity. Death penalty criminals can arrange to meet close relatives before execution of death penalty. In the way of execution of death penalty, they continue to retain the execution mode of shooting death penalty as well as the execution mode of injections, which not only helps reduce pain, but also enables the executors to die in the atmosphere of protecting their personal dignity, so that their human rights can be properly protected.

Feng Jiancang said that in recent years, many new measures have been put forward in the management of prisons, such as the newly issued " Prison The code of conduct for offenders has removed the terms and regulations that prohibit homosexuals and women's hair coloring, such as "no" or "no". It seems to be a small detail on the surface, but it contains the meaning of respecting human rights. Every organ of power can fully respect the rights of citizens in every detail.

He said that although sexual violence is strictly prohibited in prison, the homosexual orientation of prisoners is not interfered without externalization, and the discrimination of prisoners' sexual orientation is also an aspect of human rights protection. He said that most countries in the world deal with this problem in this way, and do not intervene in spirit, but the freedom of prisoners should be regulated in practice. limit 。