Chinese People Want Labor Camp System to End

According to an Aug. 17 report from Hong Kong news site Mingjing, China’s premier Wen Jiabao wants to end the labor camp system.

Prisoners walk beside a police escort during a prison open day in Nanjing, 2005.STR/AFP/Getty Images

A growing chorus of voices in China are clamoring for an end to the notorious labor camp system, with Premier Wen Jiabao among them, according to a Hong Kong-based news website.

An Aug. 17 Mingjing article quoted an insider’s reports on what Wen said during meetings among top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials at the Beidaihe beach resort.