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A recent stroy from a Chinese legal blogger’s website: Li Hongfeng, a retired worker, was sentenced to one year labor reeducaiton with the alleged fact that he smashed an ashtray and broke a\u00a0 window glass. He was once a protestor and visited several governmental offices. The Labor Reeducation Committee of Qiqiha’er City claimed that he committed such wrongdoing during his visit. The legal reason for the one-year sentence was his breaking of the peace.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/bbs.fyfz.cn\/dispdetail.aspx?bbsid=5541&catid=2 (This blog site is in Chinese.)<\/p>\n
According to a researcher, the power to send people into labor reeducation is totally controlled by the public security bureau (police station in China). There is neither effective power balance nore well-designed procedure. As in China the public security bureau is usually called by government offices to handle the protests, it tends to use labor reeducation to crackdown the protests. It actually becomes a pistol to the protestor’s head.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.usc.cuhk.edu.hk\/wk_wzdetails.asp?id=5163 (This is an on-line research paper in Chinese.)<\/p>\n
The blogger is delegating Li Hongfeng in this case. Hopefully he is going to initiate an administrative litigation soon. But even he prevails at last, Li Hongfeng has to stay several months in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A recent stroy from a Chinese legal blogger’s website: Li Hongfeng, a retired worker, was sentenced to one year labor reeducaiton with the alleged fact that he smashed an ashtray and broke a\u00a0 window glass. He was once a protestor … Continue reading