The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China committed itself to significant reforms last week. Prominent among them is the elimination of the labor camps run by the police without effective oversight by either prosecutors or courts. Even in our system with strong courts control of the police is often problematic. The challenge in China due to weak courts and compliant prosecutors is even greater. - gwcPlenum pledge won't make scrapping China's labour camps any easier | South China Morning Post: by Profs. Jerome Cohen & Margaret K. Lewis"Last week's decisions of the Communist Party's Central Committee promise significant changes to many aspects of China's legal system. None may be more important and immediate than its announcement that the party is terminating "re-education through labour", the notorious administrative punishment to which the police alone can sentence anyone for as much as three years of detention in a labour camp, with a possible one-year extension. Police don't need the approval of any court or even the agreement of the prosecutor's office. Is re-education through labour, which has been a mainstay of China's dictatorial power since 1957 and often attacked by law reformers, really to be abolished in substance as well as name?"...
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