China May End Long-Hated Labor Re-education Camps
Source: Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — All it took was a handwritten note from police to send Zhao Meifu to a labor camp for a year in China's arid northwest.
The farmer had been seeking redress for decades over a land grab by village officials. Tired of her complaints, police saw the labor camp as a quick way to get rid of her.
"They did not like my mother, so they locked her up," Zhao's son, Guo Dajun, said in a recent interview.
She was locked up in a long hated and often abused penal system known as labor re-education. Chinese police have used it to lock up tens of thousands of people for up to four years without a trial or a judge's review.
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