UCANews: Eighty percent of people held in China’s unofficial detention centers, or “black jails,” are female, and many suffer routine abuse at the hands of their captors, according to a report published on Tuesday by the overseas-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) group.
Published as Beijing’s women’s rights record comes up for review by the United Nations, the report documents around 1,000 cases of secret detention and abuse of women in the country’s black jails, which are often used to silence those pursuing complaints against the ruling Chinese Communist Party. More on this here.
