Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a 66-day detainment, Wu was released, but a 15-year prison sentence was pronounced before his departure in an attempt to prevent him from trying to return again...
...recent years, Wu has traveled widely to publicize what he calls the injustice and the cruelty of China's laogai--its prison-labor camp system...
...cause of democracy worldwide, if Jiang does not return home with a new commitment to reform. Hopefully, once back in Beijing, Jiang will build on his reputation as an economic modernizer to become a force for social and political change as well, by ordering the release of political prisoners, ending the abusive laogai system of prison labor, strengthening freedom of speech at China's universities, guaranteeing freedom of the press and opening a dialogue with advocates of Tibetan independence. Among the many reforms China needs to make, these are five of the most pressing...
...list of these abuses is mindboggling, ranging from a secret police network to an extensive system of laogai, or prison camps, filled with political prisoners, to forced abortions for purposes of population control, to the brazen and brutal occupation of Tibet. It would take a serious tome to document these abuses in their entirety...
...strongest possible rebuke should be given to those who attempt to justify the suffering of the Chinese people on the basis of their cultural heritage. Millions of Chinese are abused in prison camps because of the structure of the communist regime, not because of any Chinese cultural reason that suppresses democracy. China is not yet ready for a participatory democracy, but Jiang's repressive policies are not bringing the nation any closer to that universal ideal to which even Jiang has begun to pay lip service...