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How Educational are Chinese Re-Education Camps?

Two women in their late 70s were sentenced to "re-education-through-labor" by the Beijing police after they applied repeatedly for a permit to hold a protest. How much education actually happens at these re-education camps? Hint: Not much. ...full story at digg

from digg on Fri, Aug 22 2008

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