After completing his sentence, Jia Pin discloses Yuxi Prison labor account: alleges workdays of over ten hours and names Hangzhou Taipu in alleged prison production cooperation
According to Rights Movement and other outlets on October 13, relayed in MNewsTV's October 19 roundup, rights defender Jia Pin — released this September after completing his sentence — says that while imprisoned at Henan's Yuxi Prison he was assigned more than ten hours of high-intensity labor daily, that prison food and living conditions were poor, and that some prisoners' health was affected. He also alleges that Hangzhou Taipu Co. had production cooperation with the prison concerned and that prisoners took part in making bags and other outdoor products. Jia's four-year sentence for his VPN social-media posts was recorded by this site on October 7 against judicial documents; the present disclosure is his post-release personal account, with no independent corroborating materials seen and no public response from the named company or the prison authorities. This record is graded 'under ongoing verification'. [1]
Why it matters
This disclosure merits its own record. First, the speaker is a named individual just released from the very prison whose labor arrangements he describes — a first-hand account rather than a second-hand rumor. Second, he names a specific outdoor-products group with public export business, alleging that prison inmates produced bags and similar goods for it; if true, the issue goes beyond internal prison management to prisoners' basic labor conditions and human dignity, and to corporate responsibility for auditing prison links in supply chains. Third, it connects directly to the prison-labor beat this site tracks (on October 11 this site recorded Xiao Gaosheng's report alleging forced labor at Ji'an Prison in Jiangxi). A conservative caveat is essential: the evidence so far is Jia's personal account as re-reported by media — working hours, pay, production orders and the contractual relationship between company and prison are documented by no public files available for checking, whether forced labor occurred would require independent investigation, and neither the company nor the prison authorities have publicly responded. This site therefore records the disclosure itself in attributed form ('Jia Pin discloses/alleges…') and makes no judgment on the truth of the allegations. [1]
Full report
Background (link to this site's existing record): Jia Pin, born in 1989, a resident of Wolong District, Nanyang, Henan, was sentenced by the Wolong District People's Court to four years in prison for 'picking quarrels and provoking trouble' over posts he made between 2014 and 2022 on Facebook, Twitter and other overseas platforms accessed via VPN tools; he was released on September 21, 2026, on completion of his sentence. His release certificate (Yuxi Release Certificate [2026] No. 428) shows he served the sentence at Henan's Yuxi Prison. Photos of the indictment, verdict and release certificate were published by Jia himself; this site cross-checked the case numbers, dates and sentence against one another and established a 'verified record' on October 7, 2026 (see this site's record: 'Nanyang man sentenced to four years for VPN social media posts, released September 2026'). The present record documents his new post-release disclosure and is graded independently of that earlier record.
The disclosure: Rights Movement and other outlets reported on October 13 that, after his release in September, Jia Pin said he had been assigned more than ten hours of high-intensity labor every day during his imprisonment, that prison food and living conditions were poor, and that some prisoners' health had been affected. [1]
The named company: Jia alleges that Hangzhou Taipu Co. had production cooperation with the prison concerned and that prisoners took part in making bags and other outdoor products. MNewsTV's roundup notes at the same time that Taipu Group's public materials show it designs, develops, manufactures and exports outdoor leisure products, with production operations in multiple countries and regions — but that a company making outdoor products does not in itself prove participation in prison forced labor, and publicly described production bases cannot by themselves answer whether specific orders were ever produced in a prison. [1]
Verification note: MNewsTV states expressly in its roundup that the allegations above rest mainly on Jia Pin's personal account and re-reporting; that the specific labor arrangements, labor pay, production orders, the contractual relationship between the company and the prison, and whether forced labor occurred, all require prison records, company documents, supply-chain materials and independent investigation; and that, as of its report, no publicly available materials sufficed to independently confirm all the allegations. As of this record, no public response from Hangzhou Taipu Co., Yuxi Prison or the judicial-administrative authorities has been seen. Following this site's attribution principle for allegations, this record documents the disclosure itself and makes no judgment on the truth of the claims; it is graded 'under ongoing verification' and will follow any response from the company or officials and any further independent sourcing. [1]
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