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To Remember Is To Resist

March 12, 2013, 1:35 pm

One of China’s best-known human rights lawyers and legal scholars comments on a new book about the Chinese regime’s Reform Through Labor system. He describes how this [...]

Chinese Regime Labor Camp Reforms Bring Panic, Puzzlement, Hope

February 13, 2013, 10:42 am

The new Chinese leadership has announced that it’s going to scrap the system of “re-education through forced labor”—and both officials and dissidents are still trying [...]

Chinese Province Suspends Sentencing to Labor Camps

February 7, 2013, 7:19 pm

China’s Yunnan Province will no longer hand out sentences to forced labor camps, according to a state media report.

Reports of China Labor Camp Closures Good News to the Persecuted

January 25, 2013, 10:35 am

The proposed closure of China’s re-education through labor camps means reduced persecution against Falun Gong practitioners and a stop to retaliation against petitioners.

Chinese Taxpayers Fund Labor Camp System, While Officials Profit

January 11, 2013, 4:10 pm

Chinese taxpayers are paying hundreds of millions of yuan so Communist Party officials can lock up and enslave other Chinese.

Public Security Official Commits Suicide in Southern China

January 10, 2013, 4:49 pm

The deputy chief of the Guangzhou public security bureau killed himself on the evening of Jan. 8.

A Plea From Chinese Labor Camp Also Reached Austria

January 9, 2013, 3:43 pm

The recent case of a plea for help from a labor camp in China, discovered in a Halloween set purchased by a woman in Oregon, is not the only one of its kind.