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1. News - China

   War veteran, 80, sent to labour camp for protests

   Posted Dec 05th 2012, 08:44pm by Agence France-Presse in Beijing

   ... News China Labour camps Agence France-Presse in Beijing An 80 year old Chinese war veteran spent a year and a half in a “re-education” camp for trying to complain about a policeman, his son said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of high-profile labour camp cases. Liu Chunshan, a veteran of the Chinese civil war and Korean war, was sent to a “re-education through labour ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1098277/war-veteran-80-sent-labour-camp-protests
2. Comment - Blogs

   More inhumane stories about China’s labour camps emerge

   Posted Nov 22nd 2012, 12:12pm by Amy Li

   ... Yingkou of China’s northern Liaoning province, was sent to a Yingkou labour camp in April. This was after he had presented a written petition to officials in Beijing, voicing his opposition ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1088169/more-inhumane-stories-about-chinas-labour-camps-emerge
3. News - China - JUSTICE

   Mother sent to labour camp has compensation claim rejected

   Posted Apr 13th 2013, 12:00am by LAURA ZHOU

   ... to put her in a labour camp." The verdict tells people that it's not inappropriate to put her in a labour camp Some journalists complained that they were blocked from accessing ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1213471/mother-sent-labour-camp-has-compensation-claim-rejected
4. News - China - HEILONGJIANG

   Woman gets locked in morgue after labour camp, Beijing petition

   Posted Jan 24th 2013, 06:18pm by Ernest Kao

   ... News China Comment Blogs Labour Camp Heilongjiang Ernest Kao Like many petitioners who dare to journey to Beijing to seek redress for injustices, Chen Qingxia soon found herself sent to toil in a dingy labour camp. Chen's case took a turn for the unusual when she was released 18 months later. Rather than be allowed to return to her home in Heilongjiang province, Chen ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1135250/woman-gets-locked-morgue-after-labour-camp-beijing-petition
5. News - China

   China turns dark page of history, puts end to labour camps

   Posted Jan 07th 2013, 02:03pm by Staff Reporter

   ... News China Labour camps in China Keith Zhai In a clear reversal of a decades-old practice of human rights abuse, China announced on Monday that it would put a stop to the system of “re-education through labour”, more commonly known as labour camps, in 2013. A senior Chinese legal official told the Post that Meng Jianzhu, head of the Communist Party’s Poltiical and Legal Affairs ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1122013/china-turns-dark-page-history-puts-end-labour-camps
6. News - China - GANSU

   Gansu mother given labour camp sentence seeks justice

   Posted Dec 04th 2012, 01:25pm by Ernest Kao

   ... for reeducation at a labour camp on November 12. She has since been released. The purpose of the lawsuit will be to expose abuses of power by the labour camp commission in Lanzhou City and its ... xiaoblueleaf Dec 4th 2012 7:12pm Labour camp still exists today:( Arbitrary arrests and detentions seem the rule than exception - and without due process such as arrest warrant (issued by whom?). webbocybase Dec 4th 2012 4:42pm If her son is going to convince her to give up petitioning he might as well go the whole hog and convince her to march through town chanting "The East ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1097279/gansu-mother-given-labour-camp-sentence-seeks-justice
7. News - China

   China news in brief, 1 May, 2013

   Posted May 01st 2013, 12:00am

   ... non-work-related topics once inside the plant. A Foxconn spokesman confirmed the girl's death but denied the male was an employee because he had yet to begin work. Mimi Lau   Labour-camp mother lodges ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1227060/china-news-brief-1-may-2013
8. News - China - HUMAN RIGHTS

   China to reform labour camp system

   Posted Oct 09th 2012, 03:16pm by Associated Press in Beijing

   ... News China Labour camp Tang Hui Associated Press in Beijing China’s system of imprisoning people in labour camps without trial is problematic, and the government is working on reforms, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1056992/china-reform-labour-camp-system
9. News - China - JUSTICE

   Women 'chained up and tortured' in labour camp

   Posted Apr 08th 2013, 06:05pm by Chris Luo

   ... News China Labour Camp Torture Labour camp reform Falun Gong Chris Luo chris.luo@scmp.com Guards hurt inmates with electric rods, made them work long hours for no pay, report says A rarely seen report by a Chinese monthly has exposed some of the dark practices of a Liaoning labour camp including torture and inhuman treatment of female prisoners at a time when the government has ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1210058/dark-secrets-female-labour-camp-revealed
10. Comment - Insight & Opinion

    Is this really the end of re-education through labour?

    Posted Jan 16th 2013, 12:00am by Jerome Cohen

    ... simply mean that, in the exercise of its discretion, the police would at least temporarily suspend sending a couple of hundred thousand defenceless people to labour camps each year? Did he also ...

    http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1128734/really-end-re-education-through-labour

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