A New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) report claims that Chinese citizens are kidnapped and held in informal detention centres, known locally as “black jails”, to prevent them from bringing complaints to the central government.
According to the HRW report, the “black jails” were driven by coercion and commerce, with officials and hired guards holding petitioners in squalid, sometimes brutal confinement without legal oversight, often in return for cash. The petitioners were allegedly held for days or months at a time in makeshift detention centres where most were deprived adequate food and sleep, beaten and threatened.
The report claims that up to 10,000 people are imprisoned every year.
So, China has their own black site prisons, and their own Haliburton who makes money off of running them.
Looks like all the cool kids are doing it now.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/11/2009111281953905410.html
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