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Amid growing unrest, will China change its ways?
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Dec 13, 2008 01:15am |
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| News Date | Thursday, December 11, 2008 01:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | BEIJING – Against the bleak winter sky, the white-tiled two-story building in the southwestern outskirts of Beijing looked depressing and non-descript.
But the location, iron-grilled windows and the colored gate with Olympic mascots, fit the description of the "black jail" where Li Chunxia and Men Aijing say they spent several days and nights in forced confinement.
The so-called black jail, used to temporarily detain disgruntled citizens to prevent them from holding embarrassing protests in Beijing, is just one of the methods of control used by China's officialdom to protect political stability. |
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