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?

…Answers to your questions about the news.How Educational Is Re-Education?What you learn, or don’t learn, at a Chinese labor camp.By Jacob LeibenluftPosted Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008, at 4:32 PM ETWang Xiuying and Wu Dianyuan have been ordered to spend one year in a labor campTwo 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?PRINTDISCUSSE-MAILRSSRECOMMEND…SINGLE PAGEplaceAd2(commercialNode,’tooltile’,false,”)slate:http://www.slate.com/id/2198321/ FacebookMySpace Mixx Digg Reddit del.icio.us Furl Ma.gnolia SphereStumbleUponCLOSENot much. The emphasis in re-education-through-labor is on the labor: People sentenced to so-called laojiao may spend as much as 12 to 14 hours a day, according to some accounts, doing work like construction, making bricks, or mining. (U.S. Customs investigations have also implicated Chinese prison labor in the…

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How Educational are Chinese Re-Education Camps?

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