Tibetan monks are widely persecuted by the Chinese authorities. Photo: Photo: Getty Images.
Prisoners of conscience
Claire Ranyard reflects on fifty years of the Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund
by Claire Ranyard
14th December 2012
Alain, a Pentecostal Christian from Eritrea, was imprisoned because he was following a ‘banned’ religion. Originally captured by military police while praying, he was placed in an underground cell that was two metres long by two and a half metres high. It was not possible to straighten his legs and he was only allowed to come out once in the morning to eat or to go to the toilet. The food he was given was inedible. He was regularly tortured.
