The “re-education-through-labor” system was launched in 1957 and was nearly phased out during the Cultural Revolution. In the 1980s, however, it was re-introduced with the intent to punish ...

On January 7, state media reported a statement made by Meng Jianzhu – the secretary of the CCP Central Committee’s Commission for Political and Legal Affairs – at a national judicial ...

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Jerome A. Cohen says whatever form the proposed end of re-education through labour takes, even if it fails to fully comply with China's constitution or its laws, the present situation is likely to ...

While the government has provided no details about what it intends to do, it is not likely that the re-education archipelago — an estimated 350 labor camps with about 160,000 inmates — will be ...

The Education (Re)Open is an opportunity to strengthen communities and enhance well being with the return to classrooms, in addition to online learning, Arkatov said. The program is particularly ...

Re-education through labour, originally meant for the purging of "class enemies" in the 1950s, gave police the unilateral power to send people accused of relatively minor offences ...

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