Qincheng Prison
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| Traditional Chinese | 秦城監獄 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 秦城监狱 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Qínchéng Jiānyù |
| Wade–Giles | Ch'ínch'éng Chiēnyǜ |
| Yale Romanization | Chínchéng Jyānyù |
| IPA | [tɕʰǐnʈʂʰə̌ŋ tɕjɛ́nŷ] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | cheùhn sèhng gāam yuhk |
| IPA | [tsʰɵ̏n sɛ̏ːŋ káːm jỳːk] |
| Jyutping | ceon4 seng4 gaam1 juk6 |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Chîn-siâⁿ kaⁿ-ga̍k |
Qincheng Prison is a maximum-security prison located in the Changping District, Beijing in the People's Republic of China, near Xiaotangshan. The prison was built in 1958 with aid from the Soviet Union and it is the only prison belonging to the Ministry of Public Security. The Ministry of Justice operates other prisons.
Political prisoners have been incarcerated in Qincheng, among them participants in the Chinese democracy movement and Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, . Famous former inmates include Jiang Qing,Bao Tong,Dai Qing, as well as Tibetan figures such as the 10th Panchen Lama Choekyi Gyaltsen, and Phuntsok Wangyal. Other inmates included many communist cadres who struggled during the Cultural Revolution, such as Bo Yibo,Peng Zhen, Israel Epstein, Sidney Rittenberg and David Crook. More recently, high-ranking officials accused of corruption such as Chen Xitong and Chen Liangyu were also imprisoned here.
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