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[url]http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1391659/china-formally-abolishes-re-education-labour-camps-eases-one-child-policy[/url]
[quote]The mainland's notorious re-education-though-labour system is officially history.
The decision by the National People's Congress Standing Committee to formally abolish the 56-year-old system, which allowed authorities to sentence people to up to four years of forced labour without trial, was praised by former prisoners.
Under the new policy approved by the national legislature at the end of its six-day meeting in Beijing, those still in labour camp time would be released and their remaining terms not enforced.
"The labour camp system is a shame on China," said Huang Chengcheng , 31, of Chongqing , who spent two years in a labour camp for posting an online comment seen as a reference to the Arab spring. "I am so happy that I have lived to see the day of its abolition."
This month, the rights group Amnesty International published a report saying that mainland authorities had already begun replacing labour camps with other forms of extrajudicial detention, including "black jails", drug rehabilitation facilities and "brainwashing centres".
The NPC Standing Committee also endorsed a relaxation of the country's three-decade-old one-child policy, allowing couples to have a second child if one of the parents was an only child. Previously, couples could have two children if neither parent had siblings.[/quote]
a fantastic victory for human rights as a whole
[quote]forced labour [b]without trial[/b][/quote]
from labour camps to brainwashing centres
i cant see anything other than a james bond villain lab
It's a step in the right direction for human rights in China, but they've got a long road ahead of them
[QUOTE]mainland authorities had already begun replacing labour camps with other forms of extrajudicial detention, including "black jails", drug rehabilitation facilities and "brainwashing centres".[/QUOTE]\
FUCKING BRAVO
What a great PR stunt.
im sure the practice will continue unofficially
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;43347178]What a great PR stunt.[/QUOTE]
People seem to be quite trigger happy recently to say "lol PR stunt" for genuine good changes.
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Then again, it is China...
Watch it as how it gets replaced by something more secretive.
[QUOTE=Soret;43347644]Watch it as how it gets replaced by something more secretive.[/QUOTE]
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mainland authorities had already begun replacing labour camps with other forms of extrajudicial detention, including "black jails", drug rehabilitation facilities and "brainwashing centres".
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[QUOTE] had already begun replacing labour camps with other forms of extrajudicial detention, including "black jails", drug rehabilitation facilities and "brainwashing centres".[/QUOTE]
Like brainwashing centers are any better than labor camps?
And what is a 'brainwashing center' exactly?
So eager to call shitty on it, when you don't even know what it is, or what it entails.
[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;43347549]People seem to be quite trigger happy recently to say "lol PR stunt" for genuine good changes.
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Then again, it is China...[/QUOTE]
[quote]This month, the rights group Amnesty International published a report saying that mainland authorities had already begun replacing labour camps with other forms of extrajudicial detention, including "black jails", drug rehabilitation facilities and "brainwashing centres"[/quote]
Literally in the source.
[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;43347549]
Then again, it is China...[/QUOTE]
China doesn't have rule of law.
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;43349544]And what is a 'brainwashing center' exactly?
So eager to call shitty on it, when you don't even know what it is, or what it entails.[/QUOTE]
From [url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA17/042/2013/en/f7e7aec3-e4ed-4d8d-b99b-f6ff6ec860d6/asa170422013en.pdf]Amnesty's report[/url]
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So... out of the frying pan and into the oven.
Lovely.
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