{"id":3432,"date":"2012-10-09T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2017-02-09T00:05:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T07:05:07","slug":"our-trading-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/10\/our-trading-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Our “Trading Partners”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

China to reform 1950s labour camp system,<\/h1>\n

but won\u2019t\u00a0abolish<\/h1>\n
POSTED BY\u00a0CHINA DAILY MAIL<\/a>\u00a0\u22c5\u00a0
\n
\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tang Hui, the mother of a rape victim, was sent to a labour camp last month for contesting the perpetrators\u2019 sentences<\/p>\n

China<\/a>\u2019s system of imprisoning people in\u00a0labour camps<\/a>\u00a0without trial is problematic, and the government is working on reforms, a senior judicial official said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Jiang Wei<\/a>, the head of a government committee on judicial reform, said the government has found widespread agreement among legal scholars and lawmakers on the need to reform the labour camp detention system, and an overhaul is being devised based on that consensus.<\/p>\n

Jiang\u2019s comments were the latest indication by the government that after much debate it is ready to revise the system \u2013 known as \u201cre-education through labour\u201d \u2013 that critics say ignores civil rights and is prone to abuse.<\/p>\n

Introduced in the 1950s, the system was originally meant for opponents of the communist regime. Today, the system authorises police to jail people for three years without trial; a fourth year can be added for bad behaviour. While often used for drug abusers, prostitutes and others accused of minor offences, it has also been used to silence government critics and punish practitioners of the banned\u00a0Falun Gong<\/a>\u00a0spiritual movement. (Read more here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China to reform 1950s labour camp system, but won\u2019t\u00a0abolish POSTED BY\u00a0CHINA DAILY MAIL\u00a0\u22c5\u00a0OCTOBER 9, 2012 \u22c5 Tang Hui, the mother of a rape victim, was sent to a labour camp last month for contesting the perpetrators\u2019 sentences China\u2019s system of imprisoning people in\u00a0labour camps\u00a0without trial is problematic, and the government is working on reforms, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nOur "Trading Partners"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"China to reform 1950s labour camp system, but won\u2019t\u00a0abolish POSTED BY\u00a0CHINA DAILY MAIL\u00a0\u22c5\u00a0OCTOBER 9, 2012 \u22c5 Tang Hui, the mother of a rape victim, was sent\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/10\/our-trading-partners\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Our "Trading Partners"\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"China to reform 1950s labour camp system, but won\u2019t\u00a0abolish POSTED BY\u00a0CHINA DAILY MAIL\u00a0\u22c5\u00a0OCTOBER 9, 2012 \u22c5 Tang Hui, the mother of a rape victim, was sent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/10\/our-trading-partners\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Public Catholic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-10-09T16:00:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-02-09T07:05:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadailymail.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/09-tang-hui-e1349772971466.jpg?w=750\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rebecca Hamilton\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Rebecca Hamilton\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/10\/our-trading-partners\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/10\/our-trading-partners\/\",\"name\":\"Our \\\"Trading Partners\\\"\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-10-09T16:00:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-02-09T07:05:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#\/schema\/person\/e8d2778109308e0e776e5c16eae7b67d\"},\"description\":\"China to reform 1950s labour camp system, but won\u2019t\u00a0abolish POSTED BY\u00a0CHINA DAILY MAIL\u00a0\u22c5\u00a0OCTOBER 9, 2012 \u22c5 Tang Hui, the mother of a rape victim, was sent\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/10\/our-trading-partners\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/10\/our-trading-partners\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/10\/our-trading-partners\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Our “Trading Partners”\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/\",\"name\":\"Public Catholic\",\"description\":\"Catholic in the Public Square\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#\/schema\/person\/e8d2778109308e0e776e5c16eae7b67d\",\"name\":\"Rebecca Hamilton\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6253ced313d53e0b7bfa51e5c9eb56d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6253ced313d53e0b7bfa51e5c9eb56d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Rebecca Hamilton\"},\"description\":\"During her tenure in the Oklahoma Legislature, Rep. Hamilton has been an advocate for human rights, believing that government must support and defend the sanctity of all human lives, from conception to natural death. Representative Hamilton: Authored the original Victim\u2019s Protective Order to protect battered women, Obtained funding for the first statewide program for adult day care and the first statewide program of domestic violence shelters, and she She has also passed legislation to prevent law enforcement officials from publicly posting the private information of rape victims, Rep. Hamilton authored a 2005 law hailed as the most significant piece of pro-life legislation in Oklahoma in 30 years. She also passed the bill outlawing elective abortions in state-funded hospitals She has passed pro life bills requiring informed consent, parental notification, and limiting forced abortions. She also passed a law allowing prosecutors to file criminal charges against anyone who intentionally causes the death of an unborn child by harming the mother. Rep. Hamilton has also authored legislation ensuring taxpayers are not forced to subsidize elective abortions Rep. Hamilton was one of six original co-founders of first rape crisis center in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma City Democrat has worked to bring a wide range of groups together to fight on the behalf of abused women, including the creation of the Annual Day of Prayer for an End to Violence Against Women at the Oklahoma Capitol. Rep. Hamilton has been married for 30 years to her husband, Rodney, and the couple has two grown sons. She attends St. James Catholic Church, and is a long-time volunteer at Birth Choice of Oklahoma.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/author\/rhamilton\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Our \"Trading Partners\"","description":"China to reform 1950s labour camp system, but won\u2019t\u00a0abolish POSTED BY\u00a0CHINA DAILY MAIL\u00a0\u22c5\u00a0OCTOBER 9, 2012 \u22c5 Tang Hui, the mother of a rape victim, was sent","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/10\/our-trading-partners\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Our \"Trading Partners\"","og_description":"China to reform 1950s labour camp system, but won\u2019t\u00a0abolish POSTED BY\u00a0CHINA DAILY MAIL\u00a0\u22c5\u00a0OCTOBER 9, 2012 \u22c5 Tang Hui, the mother of a rape victim, was sent","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/10\/our-trading-partners\/","og_site_name":"Public Catholic","article_published_time":"2012-10-09T16:00:55+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-02-09T07:05:07+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/chinadailymail.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/09-tang-hui-e1349772971466.jpg?w=750"}],"author":"Rebecca Hamilton","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Rebecca Hamilton","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/10\/our-trading-partners\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/10\/our-trading-partners\/","name":"Our \"Trading Partners\"","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-10-09T16:00:55+00:00","dateModified":"2017-02-09T07:05:07+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#\/schema\/person\/e8d2778109308e0e776e5c16eae7b67d"},"description":"China to reform 1950s labour camp system, but won\u2019t\u00a0abolish POSTED BY\u00a0CHINA DAILY MAIL\u00a0\u22c5\u00a0OCTOBER 9, 2012 \u22c5 Tang Hui, the mother of a rape victim, was sent","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/10\/our-trading-partners\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/10\/our-trading-partners\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/10\/our-trading-partners\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Our “Trading Partners”"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/","name":"Public Catholic","description":"Catholic in the Public Square","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#\/schema\/person\/e8d2778109308e0e776e5c16eae7b67d","name":"Rebecca Hamilton","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6253ced313d53e0b7bfa51e5c9eb56d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6253ced313d53e0b7bfa51e5c9eb56d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Rebecca Hamilton"},"description":"During her tenure in the Oklahoma Legislature, Rep. Hamilton has been an advocate for human rights, believing that government must support and defend the sanctity of all human lives, from conception to natural death. Representative Hamilton: Authored the original Victim\u2019s Protective Order to protect battered women, Obtained funding for the first statewide program for adult day care and the first statewide program of domestic violence shelters, and she She has also passed legislation to prevent law enforcement officials from publicly posting the private information of rape victims, Rep. Hamilton authored a 2005 law hailed as the most significant piece of pro-life legislation in Oklahoma in 30 years. She also passed the bill outlawing elective abortions in state-funded hospitals She has passed pro life bills requiring informed consent, parental notification, and limiting forced abortions. She also passed a law allowing prosecutors to file criminal charges against anyone who intentionally causes the death of an unborn child by harming the mother. Rep. Hamilton has also authored legislation ensuring taxpayers are not forced to subsidize elective abortions Rep. Hamilton was one of six original co-founders of first rape crisis center in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma City Democrat has worked to bring a wide range of groups together to fight on the behalf of abused women, including the creation of the Annual Day of Prayer for an End to Violence Against Women at the Oklahoma Capitol. Rep. Hamilton has been married for 30 years to her husband, Rodney, and the couple has two grown sons. She attends St. James Catholic Church, and is a long-time volunteer at Birth Choice of Oklahoma.","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/author\/rhamilton\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3434,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}