Police increasingly use short stints in detention to silence those who may previously have been sent to re-education-through-labour camps. Photo: AP
Police increasingly use short stints in detention to silence those who may previously have been sent to re-education-through-labour camps. Photo: AP
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How China is using criminal detention in place of re-education through labour

Re-education through labour is a thing of the past, but criminal detention now takes its place

Police increasingly use short stints in detention to silence those who may previously have been sent to re-education-through-labour camps. Photo: AP
Police increasingly use short stints in detention to silence those who may previously have been sent to re-education-through-labour camps. Photo: AP
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