Beijing Activist Sent to Re-education through Labor Camp
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(Chinese Human Rights Defender, November 6, 2007)―Wang Ling (王玲), a Beijing petitioner and activist, has been sent to Re-Education through Labor camp.
According to Citizen’s Rights and Livelihood Watch (CRLW), Ms. Wang disappeared some time ago. Reportedly, Wang called two fellow Beijing petitioners in mid-October from Taiyanggong Public Security Bureau (PSB) in Beijing and told them that she was going to be sent to Re-Education through Labor camp. Wang is said to be serving a one-year-and-three-month sentence at the Daxing Re-Education through Labor Camp in Beijing.
Four years ago, to make room for Olympics facilities, Wang’s property was forcibly demolished without proper compensation. She became a petitioner and has joined Ye Guozhu, the “Olympics prisoner”, in preparing banners and posting posters for the petitioners’ demonstrations to demand protection of their rights. For her petitioning and rights-defending activities, she had been beaten, detained and imprisoned previously. <!–
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Chinese police have the power to detain people in Re-education through Labor camps for up to 3 to 4 years without any court hearings or trial. Detainees are also deprived of their rights to legal counsel and appeal.
