This article also appears in The Atlantic, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. Last week, china’s “Re-education Through Labor” system returned to the center of public attention. Re-education through labor, or laojiao in shorthand Chinese, has long been a reviled means for police to jail Chinese citizens without due process. In 2011, laojiao was used [...]
A recent viral tweet on China’s Internet starts this way: “He didn’t try to flee to the U.S. consulate, and he didn’t try to abscond to the U.S. with 200 million RMB. He’s not some big official with hundreds of apartments and countless mistresses. He’s just a little village official waiting for justice.” This man, [...]
The story of Tang Hui, a mother sentenced to hard labor through the “re-education through labor,” or RTL, program when seeking justice for her raped daughter, may have created new impetus for legislative change. Among the voices urging Tang’s release (Tang was finally released on August 10), some stepped even further to question the whole [...]
Street vendor Tang Hui and her family’s life took a tragic turn in October 2006, when her 11-year old daughter went missing in her hometown Yongzhou, a small city in Hunan Province. After three months of tireless search, Tang found out that the fifth-grader was repeatedly raped, beaten and forced into prostitution in a nearby [...]
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