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  • A jail by another name—China labor camps now drug detox centers

    12/01/2013 8:22:08 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 4 replies
    Reuters ^ | Sat Nov 30, 2013 7:20pm EST | John Ruwitch
    Li Zhongying was freed from a Chinese labor camp ahead of schedule in September because, guards told her, the government was scrapping “re-education through labor”, a heavily criticized penal system created in the 1950s. Several hundred other inmates were not so lucky, she said. Like Li, they were held without trial and forced to do factory work under what she called “cruel” conditions. They remained because they were drug offenders, she told Reuters. Many of China’s re-education through labor camps, instead of being abolished in line with a ruling Communist Party announcement this month, are being turned into compulsory drug...