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Rape and beatings in a Beijing “black jail” hotel

Entrance to the Juyuan Hotel on Majiabao Road, Beijing Last week’s edition of Southern Weekly (Aug. 6) carried an extraordinarily rare article on a subject that is usually off-limits for the mainstream media in China: the “black jails”... ...full story at Black & White Cat

from Black & White Cat on Fri, Aug 14 2009

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