Sunday, February 25

In advance of the ongoing assesment by 17 Olympic inspectors, thousands of unwanted people have been tossed into a detention center in China, without trial. For a month, 500 to 600 people a day have been tossed in. Human Rights in China interviewed former inmates of the detention centre, and they reported "There were no bathing facilities, food was poured from buckets and fought over by mice, and beatings with leather belts were common." (via will on MetaFilter)

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