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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
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A maximum sentence of four years was set
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The management and implementation of the re-education through labor system was passed from the Ministry of Public Security to the Ministry of Justice
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the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called for China to allow judicial control over detentions
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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
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The Special Rapporteur on Torture called for the outright abolition of re-education through labor
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The Chinese government replacethe re-education through labor system with a more lenient set of laws
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Chongqing municipality passed a law allowing lawyers to offer legal counsel in re-education through labor cases
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A group of academics drafted an open letter to the government calling for an end to the system
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During the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, there were reports that some individuals applying for permits to protest were detained without trial
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re-education through labor was listed as an "urgent human rights concern"
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There remains a large number of active facilities