The history of reeducation through labor system

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  • First use of re-education through labor in China

    by the Communist Party of China to punish counter-revolutionaries

  • officially adopted into law to be implemented by the Ministry of Public Security

  • A maximum sentence of four years was set

  • The management and implementation of the re-education through labor system was passed from the Ministry of Public Security to the Ministry of Justice

  • the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called for China to allow judicial control over detentions

  • Re-education through labor became a common punishment for practitioners

    when Falun Gong was banned in mainland China

  • The WGAD called for the establishment of rights to due process and counsel for individuals detained

  • The Special Rapporteur on Torture called for the outright abolition of re-education through labor

  • The Chinese government replacethe re-education through labor system with a more lenient set of laws

  • Chongqing municipality passed a law allowing lawyers to offer legal counsel in re-education through labor cases

  • A group of academics drafted an open letter to the government calling for an end to the system

  • During the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, there were reports that some individuals applying for permits to protest were detained without trial

  • re-education through labor was listed as an "urgent human rights concern"

  • There remains a large number of active facilities