WSJ: “A Chinese province said it is suspending use of a harsh, gulag-like prison system commonly used around the country to stifle dissent, in the strongest signal yet that officials may be phasing out the widely criticized practice.
Workers in the Shayang Re-education Through Labor (Shayang Farm), a re-education through labor camp in Liaoning province. Photo part of the archives of the Laogai Museum, used with permission of the Laogai Research Foundation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
State media on Wednesday reported authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan said they would immediately suspend a practice known as re-education through labor, or laojiao in Chinese. The camps allow local authorities to detain those suspected of wrongdoing for up to four years without an open trial. Human-rights groups allege those detained in re-education-through-labor camps are subjected to physical abuse.”
via China Province to Stop Sending Dissidents to Camps – WSJ.com.
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