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...painful irony of the black jails is that they sprang up after an earlier effort by Beijing to reform the national detention system. In 2003 a migrant worker in Guangzhou named Sun Zhigang was beaten to death while in police custody. Sun, who had been stopped for not carrying his temporary-residence certificate, was detained under a system known as "custody and repatriation." That system, a series of detention centers as well as the legal framework to hold people on administrative charges, was used to round up vagrants, beggars and petitioners...
...Following a public outcry over Sun's death, the government eliminated "custody and repatriation," or shourong in Mandarin. "But vagrancy-detention-era abuses did not end with the abolition of shourong," states the Human Rights Watch report. "Instead, such abuses have been driven underground into new extrajudicial 'black jails.' " It's an unpleasant lesson in the dangers of treating the symptoms without addressing the cause...
...Neither this country - nor the values that we were founded upon - could exist without men and women like these 13 Americans," Obama said. "Their life's work is our security and the freedom that we too often take for granted. Every evening that the sun sets on a tranquil town; every dawn that a flag is unfurled; every moment that an American enjoys life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - that is their legacy...
...fight to keep UHS from stitching red patches bearing the word “SWINE” onto the clothes of the infirmed. “We’re hoping next year the university will let us provide assistance to the sick in the form of sun-lamps. We’re really optimistic that sun-lamps could make the swine flu experience a little less sad and dehumanizing,” said one source...
...another student quoted in the Baltimore Sun article took a more cynical outlook...