"Kept in a cage that looked like it was for an animal": Tortured in secret Chinese jail, a Japanese man describes his ordeal

Hideji Suzuki, the former President of Japan China Youth Exchange had been locked up in a ‘Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location’ (RSDL) facility for the seven months. RSDL is a notorious system where the suspect is kept incommunicado without access to a lawyer for months at a time. It is a system that has been condemned by the UN as tantamount to torture.

Suzuki was eventually arrested on spying charges and later sentenced at a 'secret tria’l to six years in jail. He vehemently denies these accusations. After being released on October 2022, he spoke to the press.