Only four months from the release: Nanjing Conscientious Prisoners Shitefu died in the “separate killing” of New Zealand Prison.

On 22 September 2026, Nanjing Human Rights Defender Shitefu died in the Sha River Prison, the first division of the Xinjiang Production Corps, where the Communist Party of China informed that the cause of death was “heart trouble”. However, the exclusive leads and opinion-monitoring surveys received by the Network indicate that this is a very typical “institutional passive killing”. Stéphane was born in 1959 and was politically persecuted for his public speech in commemoration of “six fours”. I…