20 Feb 2025獨媒#4539
懲教署：截至去年底591人涉「黑暴」或違國安在囚 佔約6.2%
The Correctional Services Department invited some media to attend its annual press conference today to review its work last year, and issued a press release afterward. As of 31 December last year, 591 people in custody were involved in “black-clad violence” or national security offences under the National Security Law or the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, down 24% from 776 in 2023. Based on an average daily custodial population of 9,550 last year, they accounted for about 6.2%.
懲教署今日邀請部分傳媒，出席周年記者會回顧去年工作，事後發新聞稿。截至去年12月31日，涉「黑暴」或違反國安（《港區國安法》／《維護國家安全條例》）有591人，較2023年的776人下降24%。以去年平均每日在囚人口9,550人計算，即佔約6.2%。
29 Aug 2024獨媒#3975
在囚支援平台「候鳥」停售月餅 朱江瑋：今次遭遇嘅野蠻程度太勁
The in-prison support platform ‘Migratory Birds’, which has launched mooncakes for three consecutive years, said it had been forced to stop selling them because it had encountered “suppression” and its supplier was unable to provide the products. Kong Wai Chu, a former Yau Tsim Mong district councillor and founder of ‘Migratory Birds’, told InMediaHK that the platform had been maliciously targeted, alleging that the mooncake manufacturer had been “looked after” by various departments. Kong Wai Chu said the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department had sent three teams to inspect the mooncake manufacturer’s warehouse and food factory until the early hours of last Thursday, and had ultimately sealed the warehouse. Kong Wai Chu lamented that “the level of barbarity we encountered this time was too much”. The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department replied to InMediaHK’s enquiries in the evening, saying it had earlier received a complaint alleging that someone was suspected of using a unit at Tong Lik Industrial Centre in Kowloon Bay as an unlicensed mooncake packaging workshop. It therefore conducted investigations at target premises in multiple districts on 12 August together with other enforcement departments. The department said that as the case remained under investigation, it had no further information to disclose at this stage.
連續第三年推出月餅的在囚支援平台「候鳥」表示，因為「遇到打壓」，因供應商未能供貨而被迫停售。前油尖旺區議員兼「候鳥」創辦人朱江瑋向《獨媒》稱遭惡意針對，指月餅製造商被各部門「關照」。朱江瑋透露，食環署在上周四更派出三隊人員，到月餅製造商的倉庫、食物工場巡查至凌晨，最後更查封倉庫，慨嘆「今次遭遇嘅野蠻程度太勁」。食環署傍晚回覆《獨媒》查詢，稱早前接獲投訴，指有人懷疑把九龍灣同力工業中心一個單位用作無牌月餅包裝工場，遂在8月12日聯同其他執法部門在多區的目標處所展開調查。署方表示，由於個案仍在調查中，現階段沒有進一步資料可以公開。
28 Jul 2024集誌社#3856
囚中書｜「眾囚書」自資運作三年 親友「下單」免費贈書
The book fair has ended, but at least eight books at the venue were “removed from sale”. Even outside prison walls, banned books are everywhere—in libraries, at book fairs and in bookshops—and the situation inside is even more restrictive. Jizhi Society interviewed Shiu Ka-chun, Emilia, the girlfriend of Lau Wing-kwong, and “Books for Prisoners”, which sends books free of charge to fellow prisoners, to find out what people inside are reading—and what they can read.
Books may seem romantic, with their light, weightless words reaching everywhere. But getting books “over the wall” and into the hands of prisoners—from finding and buying the books to sending them in—can be a heavy burden for relatives and friends. “A book costs at least $100, and if you send in six a month, it’s not a small sum … Apart from the money, there’s also the time cost.” In view of this, Peng Ailie, known as Rizzy, established “Books for Prisoners” in 2021. Regardless of background and treating everyone equally, it provides books free of charge to all prisoners.
Organisations supporting prisoners have successively folded in recent years. The volunteers at “Books for Prisoners” have persisted with self-funded operations for more than three years. To date, they have received more than 5,000 second-hand books and assist an average of more than ten families each month. Founder Rizzy was once imprisoned. He said calmly: “I remember very clearly the feeling of happiness when I read a good book inside.”
書展落幕，場內最少八本書「被下架」。即使在牆外，圖書館、書展、書店 … 禁書處處，牆內的世界更甚。《集誌社》訪問一直書寫囚涯的邵家臻、劉頴匡女友 Emilia、為囚友免費送書的「眾囚書」，了解牆內的他們，在讀甚麼？又能讀甚麼？
書看似浪漫，輕飄飄的文字無遠弗屆，但要把書「翻牆」送到在囚人士手上，由找書、買書、入書 … 對家屬親友或是重擔，「一本書起碼一百，一個月入六本，條數都唔細 … 除左錢，仲有時間成本呢」。有見及此，彭艾烈 Rizzy 在 2021 年成立「眾囚書」，不計背景、一視同仁，為所有在囚人士免費提供書籍。
支援在囚者組織近年接連倒下，「眾囚書」一眾義工，堅持自費運作三年多，至今接收五千多本二手書，每月平均協助十多位家屬。創辦人 Rizzy 曾經是被囚的過路人，他淡然說「我好記得，喺裏面睇到一本好書，嗰份開心嘅感覺」
31 May 2024ReNews#3617
運作近三年 寫信詩平台封信子十月停止運作
Established by several “letter writers” in September 2021, the social platform Fung Sun Ji has spent nearly three years not only writing to prisoners, but also finding “pen pals” for prisoners with fewer social contacts and mailing letters on behalf of other letter writers.
The platform announced on Instagram today that it will cease operations on October 31 this year, asking people to “make use of the time to exchange contact details with pen pals for communication in the future”. It has also notified prisoners by letter that those still seeking pen pals must contact the platform by the end of August.
由數名「寫信師」在 21 年 9 月成立的社交平台「封信子」，過去近三年除了寫信予在囚人士，亦持續為社會聯系較少的在囚者徵「筆友」和代其他寫信師寄信。
他們今日在 IG 宣布，封信子將於今年 10 月 31 日停止運作，「請把握時間同筆友交換聯絡方法以便日後通信」，他們亦已以書信通知在囚人若，若有在囚者仍想徵求筆友，需於8 月底前聯絡他們。
17 Apr 2024集誌社#3367
囚權｜被罰囚「水飯房」個案近4400宗 創五年新高
Figures from the Correctional Services Department show that last year there were 4,395 disciplinary prosecution cases in which prisoners were sentenced to solitary confinement as punishment, commonly known as being “nailed in a cell”. There were also 5,335 instances of individual disciplinary violations; both figures were five-year highs. Last year, 26 prisoners were suspended from associating with other prisoners for four months or more. In addition, the Correctional Services Department used “necessary force” on prisoners 78 times last year, including unarmed restraint and pepper spray.
懲教署數字顯示，去年有 4395 宗在囚人士被判以隔離囚禁作懲罰的紀律檢控個案（俗稱釘倉）、個人違反紀律則有 5335 人次，數字都為過去五年新高。在去年有 26人被「中止與其他在囚人士交往」四個月以上。此外，懲教署去年共有 78 次向在囚人士使用包括徒手控制或胡椒噴霧等「必要武力」。
26 Mar 2024法庭線#3249
胡志偉母親設靈 胡由囚車押送殯儀館 後門進出、木板及雨傘遮擋
Wu Chi-wai’s mother died peacefully at the end of February. A wake was held from Tuesday afternoon (the 26th) into the evening at Diamond Hill Funeral Parlour. Wu, who is remanded in custody in the case involving 47 people over the pro-democracy primary election, was taken to the funeral parlour in a Correctional Services Department prison van at 3 p.m. He left after staying for about 20 minutes.
The prison van was parked at the funeral parlour’s back entrance, where several plain-clothes personnel were standing guard. Someone subsequently moved wooden boards to the front of the van, while others opened umbrellas to block the view. The van then drove away.
胡志偉母親今年 2 月底安詳離世，周二（26 日）下午至晚上在鑽石山殯儀館設靈。正因民主派初選 47 人案還押的胡志偉，下午 3 時由懲教囚車押送至殯儀館，逗留約 20 分鐘後離開。
囚車停泊於殯儀館後門，數名便衣人士在場戒備。其後有人將木板搬至囚車車頭，亦有人打開雨傘遮擋，囚車之後駛走。
2 Mar 2024獨媒#3087
前賢學思政發言人朱慧盈出獄 寒天下由警察提早護送離開
Former Student Politicism spokesperson Zhu Huiying completed her sentence and was released from prison this morning. Her comrades, Wong Yat-chin and Chan Chi-sum, posted a photo on social media of themselves “picking her up from school”, saying that the Correctional Services Department released her early at 7:30 a.m. without notifying her family and friends, and that Zhu Huiying left the prison under police escort. Chan Chi-sum described Zhu as “the same as before in every way except that she has become thinner in appearance, with a youthful look on her face and aspirations in her words”; Wong Yat-chin lamented, “After two and a half years, we have finally left that little cage.”
前賢學思政發言人朱慧盈今早刑滿出獄。其戰友王逸戰、陳枳森在社交媒體發佈「接放學」的合照，並指懲教署今早在沒有通知親友的情況下，7時半提前將她釋放，朱慧盈由警察護送下離開監獄。陳枳森形容朱「除了外貌上變得瘦削外，一切也如當初一樣，臉上帶著稚氣，話中帶著憧憬」；王逸戰則感嘆「兩年半過去，我們終於離開了那個小牢籠」。
27 Feb 2024光傳媒#3052
周庭談甲級囚犯經歷 靠看小說忘記痛苦 6月4日信件消失
Agnes Chow, a former member of Demosisto, announced at the end of last year that she had forfeited bail and would remain in Canada. In a video uploaded to YouTube yesterday (26th), she described her experience in prison between 2020 and 2021, including being classified by the Correctional Services Department as a “Class A prisoner” and held in solitary confinement, and travelling in a prison van colloquially known as the “Ironclad Dragon”. She said she became absorbed in Keigo Higashino’s novels in prison: “Novels could let me become absorbed in a fantasy world and forget the pain of the real world.” She also revealed that a letter she sent on June 4 mysteriously disappeared, and said she was unsure whether this was due to an administrative error, the post office losing it, or political reasons.
前「香港眾志」成員周庭去年底宣布棄保留在加拿大，她昨日（26日）在YouTube上載影片，講述自己在2020年至21年間入獄服刑的經歷，包括被懲教處判定是「甲級囚犯」要單獨囚禁、坐俗稱「鐵甲威龍」的囚車。她分享在獄中沉迷東野圭吾小說，「小說可以令我沉迷喺幻想世界入面，可以令我忘記現實世界嘅痛苦」。她又透露6月4日寄出的信離奇消失，不肯定是行政出錯、郵局寄失或涉政治原因。
15 Feb 2024獨媒#2984
獄中部分《明報》內容被撕走 懲教：不利改過自新或威脅秩序
Newspapers are one of the important channels through which people in custody obtain information from outside. However, Independent Media has learned that some correctional institutions have recently torn out certain content from Ming Pao before delivering it to people in custody, including a love letter from mainland rights writer Yeh To to his incarcerated fiancée, Chow Hang-tung, and reports on the trial in the Apple case.
報紙是在囚人士獲得外界資訊的重要渠道之一，不過《獨媒》獲悉，近日有懲教院所將《明報》送到在囚人士手上前，會將部分內容撕去，包括內地維權作家野渡給在囚未婚妻鄒幸彤的情書及蘋果案審訊報導。
25 Jan 2024獨媒#2880
王逸戰稱有少年犯獄中被雞姦 警證拘一人惟不夠證據起訴
Wong Yat-chin, the former convenor of Student Politicism who pleaded guilty two years ago to conspiracy to incite subversion of state power and was sentenced to 36 months in prison, wrote on social media last Friday (19th) that a juvenile offender was violently assaulted while being held at Pik Uk Correctional Institution. Wong Yat-chin also said that in winter 2021, a 15-year-old juvenile offender was subjected by other inmates to having wintergreen ointment applied to his glans, a toothbrush inserted into his anus, and even rape through illegal anal intercourse. Correctional staff only reported the matter to police after he was repeatedly passing blood and was sent to hospital. The Correctional Services Department previously said the claims were “completely without factual basis” and were “intended to smear the work of the correctional services”, and strongly condemned the statements.
前年承認串謀煽動顛覆國政權罪、被判囚36個月的前賢學思政召集人王逸戰，上周五（19日）在社交媒體撰文，稱在壁屋懲教所羈押期間，有少年犯被暴力襲擊，2021年冬天亦有一名15歲少年犯被其他囚犯「用冬青膏搽龜頭，以牙刷捅肛門，甚至強姦非法肛交」，直到不斷屙血送醫，懲教職員才報警處理。懲教署早前指有關言論「全無事實根據」及「意圖抹黑懲教工作」，懲教署予以嚴厲譴責。
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