Tag: black jails

Petition to Beijing Is a Trap of False Hope: Lawyer

News Analysis To deal with complaints and grievances, the communist regime initiated the Letters and Calls Bureau during Mao Zedong’s era in the early 1950s. Offices of letters and visits were established at all levels from local governments to the central government in Beijing. Petitioners have to take their issues to the relevant office. However, this petition…


American Recounts Being Tortured and Drugged in China’s ‘Black Jails’

After being injected with an unknown substance, forced to take unidentified pills, and badly beaten, an American from San Francisco thought he was not going to make it out alive from China’s secretive black jails. Warren Rothman said he was taken to four different black jails—ordinary places that are turned into unofficial jails by Chinese…