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There were no champagne corks popping, no crystal balls dropping in Wang Yi's new year. The pastor of Early Rain Covenant Church was in prison, spending his second January 1st in a dark cell, charged with a crime Americans commit every day: worshipping Jesus. The actual allegations were much more subtle -- things like "illegal business activities" or "inciting subversion of state power." But in China, government officials need no excuse. Christians, like Uyghurs, Falun Gong, and any other men and women of faith, are fair game. "Where are you taking my husband?" a woman pleads on a cell phone...

The NAFTA marketplace unrestrained in the pursuit of cheap labor has driven an increasing volume of manufacturing off-shore to Communist China, where slave prison camps offer a cost of labor that is hard to beat. Chinese made goods ranging from electronics to toys and clothes are daily sold in mass marketing retailers such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, K-Mart, Target, Lowes, and dozens of other U.S. corporations. Cheap goods from Communist China increasingly line the shelves of the NAFTA marketplace under marquee product trade names that bear no relationship to the Chinese slave labor that manufactured, produced, or otherwise assembled the...

Exposing Shocking Horrors Inside Sujiatun Concentration Camp By Ji Da Epoch Times Staff Mar 11, 2006 A reporter from China who worked for a Japanese television news agency and specialized in Chinese news recently escaped to the United States after being wanted in China for reporting on controversial issues. (The Epoch Times) High-res image (1200 x 900 px, 72 dpi) [ Warning: graphic photos below ] Falun Gong Practitioners a Cheap Source of Black Market Organs In recent years, international organ buying and selling markets have had extreme shortages. As the world's most populous country with the death penalty, China...

CHINA China: “Work camps” constitute detention without trial Amnesty International and the UN Working Group on forced labour and arbitrary detention charge: more than 300,000 people are detained without trial, tortured and forced to work. Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) – “Re-education through work” camps – sentencing to forced labour – are a “form of extra-judiciary detention” where people are interned for up to four years without trial, without a lawyer and solely on the decision of the police. Detainees may be beaten and subjected to torture and ill treatment, especially if they refuse to repudiate their “crimes”. They are also a reserve...

Abused and neglected, migrants are the muscle of China's economic miracle. They build the skyscrapers and expressways, they make the cheap export goods, they drive the trucks and lug the steel and cement that has lifted China into its boom years. They do the toughest and dirtiest jobs that nobody else will do. It is their labour that allowed China to become the factory to the world. CHINA'S SLAVE LABOURERS They have no social or medical insurance, no unemployment or housing benefits, no trade unions, no education rights for their children, and no written contracts with employers. They live in...

Caption: Making them state-funded may curb graft and improve inmates' labour conditions The mainland is experimenting with reform of its controversial penal system by severing prisons from their business arms. The aim is to curb corruption and improve prisoners' living conditions. Prisons chosen for the experiment, which starts next month, will be state-funded, freeing them of the need to run profit-driven businesses in which inmates often work long hours in dangerous conditions - frequently without pay. Prisons in Heilongjiang, Jiangxi, Hubei and Shaanxi provinces and the Shanghai and Chongqing municipalities will begin the experiment on September 1. They will no...

Boosting freedom and democracy for China • Since 1989www.chinasupport.net FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 19, 2003 Contact:John Kusumi, Executive Director203-640-2715 Boycott Questions: Ask David Chu 5p.m. EST Today February 19, 2003 (CSN) -- Readers of CSN news have an excellent opportunity today to pose questions directly to CSN's boycott spokesman, David Chu. Chu will be the guest on the Chuck Morse show, which can be heard on the Internet, at 5:00p.m. EST today. The topic will be China, and the boycott of Made in China products.Past shows with David Chu have been known to include fiery invective, directed at China's ruling Communist...