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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Abuses in Secret Jails
By KEITH BRADSHER
HONG KONG — A human rights group accusedChina’s national government on Thursday of tolerating an extensivenetwork of secret jails operated in Beijing by provincial and municipalgovernments to prevent their citizens from complaining to nationalofficials.
In a report released in Hong Kong and based on interviewswith 38 former detainees from so-called black jails, Human Rights Watchaccused guards at these prisons of beating, sexually abusing,intimidating and robbing men, women and teenagers.
The formerdetainees had gone to Beijing to submit petitions to the nationalgovernment after suffering what they perceived as corruption or otherabuses of power at lower levels of government.
Provincial andmunicipal officials in China are subject to a national civil serviceevaluation system in which they are penalized based on the number ofcomplaints received in Beijing about their management. So local andprovincial officials have a strong incentive to prevent petitionersfrom reaching the central government.
Sophie Richardson, theadvocacy director for Asia at Human Rights Watch, said that abuses werewidespread in China’s prison system, which operates under some judicialsupervision, but were worse in unofficial jails.
“We’re talkingabout a country with torture in formal detention centers, and the blackjails are 10 floors down” in terms of the treatment of detainees, shesaid.
Chinese media have reported on the existence of unofficialjails, but central government officials have denied their existence atpress conferences.
“There are no black jails in China,” Qin Gang, aForeign Ministry spokesman, said at a regular news conference inBeijing on Thursday.
“If citizens have complaints andsuggestions about government work, they can convey them to the relevantauthorities through legitimate and normal channels.”
A call to thepress office of the Ministry of Public Security in Beijing on Thursdaywas transferred repeatedly by officials who said that the subject wasnot in their area of responsibility.
The call was finally transferred to a spokesman who declined to give his name and said that he was not aware of any black jails.
China has taken some steps in recent months to safeguard the legal rights of those who fall afoul of the authorities.
Newregulations drafted by the Ministry of Public Security and released onMonday by the State Council, or cabinet, bar forced labor atgovernment-authorized detention centers, where people accused of crimesare held before trial.
The new rules also ban officials at detentioncenters from charging detainees for expenses like food, which must nowbe paid for by the government.
But Nicholas Becquelin,a Hong Kong researcher for Human Rights Watch, said that the new rulesdid nothing to help detainees at unofficial jails, because they applyonly to people who are within the judicial system.
Government-approved detention centers were at the center of a series of scandals earlier this year.
LiQiaoming, 24, died at one of these centers in Yunnan province lastFebruary in an incident that local authorities initially blamed on anaccident during a game of hide and seek; public criticism prompted aninvestigation by the central government that determined that Mr. Li wasbeaten to death.
But unofficial jails have captured more attention in recent months.
Accordingto Chinese media, a guard at an unofficial jail pleaded guilty on Nov.4 to raping a 21-year-old woman from Anhui province who had come toBeijing to complain about harassment at her university.
Nearlya dozen people reportedly witnessed the rape, and about 50 detainees,including the young woman, managed to break out of the unofficial jailwhen the guard fled following the rape.
The court dismissed othercharges against the inexpensive guesthouse that was being used as theunofficial jail and against two provincial liaison officials, accordingto the official China Daily newspaper.
Jeffrey Bader, theNational Security Council director for East Asian affairs, said in aconference call with reporters on Monday that President Obama plannedto raise a series of human rights issues with President Hu Jintao whenthey meet next week in Beijing.
While Mr. Bader did notmention unofficial jails, he did say that President Obama would discuss“rule of law,” a broad category that encompasses unofficial jails and awide range of other extrajudicial practices in China.
Human Rights Watch called for the Chinese government to eliminate black jails.
TheNew York-based group also asked that the United States, European Union,World Bank and the Asian Development Bank — which have been trying tohelp China upgrade its legal system — all seek the abolition of blackjails as well.
The Asian Development Bank said that it was not involved in human rights.
“TheADB is an apolitical organization and our charter mandates that ADBdoes not interfere in the political affairs of any of its membercountries and that only economic considerations shall be relevant toits decisions,” the bank said in an e-mail reply to questions.
“We regard the issue of human rights as being political in nature.” |