“It is another signal that the widely criticised system — where people can be sentenced to up to four years’ ‘re-education’ by a police panel, without an open trial — is coming to an end. The comments come after the Communist Party’s new leader Xi Jinping said the party recognised as a ‘pressing problem’ that it was ‘out of touch with the people’. About 60,000 people are detained in the camps, officials say, most of whom serve from six months to a year. Opponents say the camps are used to silence government critics and would-be petitioners who seek to bring their complaints against officials to higher authorities.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/21/chinese-re-education-labor-camps-set-for-abolition-official/
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