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Monday, 9 February 2009 - China human rights record stirs struggle at home | International |
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      My Profile    Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. 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Human Rights Council starting in Geneva on Monday gives groups and governments a chance to press Beijing on secretive executions and jailed dissidents as well as labor camps and other forms of detention. Yet contention over China's restrictions on its citizens is not confined to international conference rooms. Activists at home have also been galvanized, most recently against what locals call "black jails" -- detention centers holding protesters without official procedures or right to appeal. "These black jails are clearly against the law. But local officials call them legal study classes, and that shows how they treat the law as just a tool for abusing rights," said Zhang Jianping, an activist in eastern Jiangsu province who runs a website focused on grassroots rights issues. Despite the ruling Communist Party's censorship and crackdowns on dissent, demands for rights are spreading throughout this increasingly diverse and fractious society. Some rights advocates said the detentions should be a top issue at the three-day U.N. "universal periodic review" of China, which opens while some countries may be more focused on Beijing's potential role in reviving the global economy. "In a sense, this is the biggest human rights issue, because it involves so many people, it's so widespread, and it's so lacking in legal justification," said Xu Zhiyong, a Beijing law lecturer and rights advocate who has organized "guerrilla" citizen rescues of detained petitioners. "LAW EDUCATION CLASS" Zheng Dajing, from central Hubei province, said the detention center he was held in was called a "law education class" on banners inside its small grounds. But there were no textbooks or lectures in the disused tobacco-buying station in his home county of Yunxi that he said became his jail for over a year. "A banner inside said it was for us to learn about the legal system. But there was no study or law in there," said Zheng, a plump 46-year-old former bank clerk whose grievances snowballed from a row over home ownership. "The guards spent all day playing mahjong and cards." He was one of many tens of thousands of citizens who every year travel to Beijing to complain at government "petitions and appeals" offices promising to help settle citizens' grievances. But few complaints are resolved and the petitioners' rancor and persistence often deepen. Local governments sometimes use police and hired thugs to lure, cajole or drag petitioners away from government offices, where their complaints may embarrass local leaders and stain their promotion prospects. The aggrieved farmers, workers and pensioners are then held in the unadvertised detention centers, many on Beijing's southern outskirts and the backroads of other cities and towns. Zheng said he was hauled into one such "black jail" in the capital, driven back to one in his hometown and locked up until late last year. "Local leaders want to protect themselves, so they try to hide us away, hide away our complaints," said Zheng.  Continued... View article on single page   Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx My Web Facebook LinkedIn     Next Article: Militants killing laughter and music in Pakistan region     Also on Reuters Slideshow  Slideshow: Portraits of the Congo conflict Digital scans of "Lucy" take pre-humans inside out Video  Video: Angelina Jolie visits refugee camp More International News Australian bushfires kill 130, dozens more missing   |  Video Israel warplanes bomb Gaza after rocket attacks Tamil Tiger suicide blast hits refugees: military Holocaust-denier removed from Argentine seminary South Korea to stand firm despite North's threats More International News... 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