FEATURE / From isolation to reflection: Green Island Biennial looks at islands of repression
08/05/2025 03:08 PM
After the first group of political prisoners was sent to Green Island in May 1951, several thousand more followed over the next three decades, incarcerated on a small outpost off Taiwan's southeastern coast.
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