Susana Campo Fidalgo
Wednesday, 18/12/13
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black prisons, forced drug rehabilitation centers, Brainwashing centers and psychiatric institutions are the new Chinese forced labor camps.
Black prisons are one of the new forms of repression in China.
There is a Chinese saying that perfectly explains the new policy of the Chinese government regarding its labor camp system: "Cambiar la sopa pero no su medicina". The Chinese government has announced that it will study the elimination of forced labor camps but the NGO Amnesty International assures that it is a cosmetic change. black prisons, forced drug rehabilitation centers, Brainwashing centers and psychiatric institutions are the other centers with which China will continue to persecute its citizens..
Los brainwashing centers, en ocasiones conocidos oficialmente como "clases de educación legal" and whose main objective is to force followers of the Falun Gong sect to renounce their beliefs, sometimes through torture and other ill-treatment.
The calls black prisons They are unofficial detention centers, often installed in random places like hotels or abandoned buildings, to imprison the so-called petitioners, people victims of injustice and abuse who turn to the Government after having exhausted judicial remedies. This type of prisons, according to the NGO, They have no legal basis in Chinese law and the authorities continue to deny their existence, leaving detainees there potentially at greater risk of violations of the Human rights that those who are under the reeducation through work system. In these last two types of detention centers, torture is uncontrolled. Black prisons constitute an illegal system to detain petitioners and thus protect government officials, according to another NGO, HRW.
The same happens in psychiatric institutions. In these centers, the detainees, mainly, Political and religious dissidents as well as whistleblowers suffer ongoing abuses that include, according to pro-government organizations, incommunicado stays for several months in which they are drugged.
Finally, are the drug addiction centers, places that in theory are used to rehabilitate drug addicts but that are being used as if they were forced labor camps, they denounce from the NGO.
