AsiaNews: In 2013, China will put an end to forced labor camps, in particular the laojiao (“reform through labor”), where many Christians, members of the Falun Gong and persons responsible for petty crimes are sent.
The news, for now unofficial, was circulated by the South China Morning Post. According to the Hong Kong newspaper, today at a meeting, Meng Jianzhu, Secretary of the Committee for Political and Legal Affairs of the Chinese Communist Party, said that this year China will stop the practice of “re-education through labor”. Read more here.
