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 [...]
Ren Jianyu, a 25-year-old man imprisoned in 2011 for an online speech crime, has been released. According to Sina News and to the Global Times’ Sina Weibo microblogging account, Ren was formally released from Chongqing labor prison on 4 o’clock Monday afternoon, Beijing time. This follows Ren Jianyu’s appeal of his sentence to number 3 intermediate [...]
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, [...]
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