Pu Zhiqiang has been in hospital for three days to stabilise his blood sugar, but the prominent Chinese human rights lawyer is not slowing down. From his hospital bed, he is fighting for the abolition of laojiao – a gulag-style “re-education through labour” system.
“The name of re-education through labour stinks and it signals that China is a police state,” says Mr Pu. “What we need is to rebuild the rule of law.”
Among the many calls facing Xi Jinping, new chief of the Communist party, for political reform, none is louder than the demand for changes to the laojiao system.
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