I love announcements like this
privacy.at Anonymous Remailer
mixmaster at remailer.privacy.at
Fri Jun 20 10:25:55 PDT 2003
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:27:50 -0400, you wrote:
>
> today...
>
>
> SURVEILLANCE MATTERS
> Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) (F.R. Page 35631)
> Closed meeting to discuss surveillance matters.
> Location: 1155 21st St., NW, 9th Floor Conference Room,
> Washington, D.C.. 11 a.m.
> Contact: Jean Webb, 202-418-5100
> **CLOSED**
How about this news from China. Looks like Ashcroft has the same
process underway here. Maybe it is modelled on our "partner in
freedom", China.
Papers, please!!
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501030623-
458835,00.html?cnn=yes
Asia
Hostages of the State
A murder that shocked the nation exposes the brutality of
China's system of extrajudicial detentions
BY SUSAN JAKES / BEIJING CHINA PHOTO/REUTERS
Sun Liusong's son, Sun Zhigang, was beaten to death in a
detention center in March 2003 Had it ended differently, Sun
Zhigang's life might have been a testament to his country's
progress. The 27-year-old carpenter's son had worked his way out
of a remote village in China's central Hubei province to a
university in the provincial capital of Wuhan. He graduated with
an arts degree, then later moved to Guangzhou, landing a job as
a graphic designer and the chance to make a home in new China's
glittering boomtown. But three weeks into his new life, Sun's
luck ran out. On his way to an Internet cafi, he was stopped by
police and asked for his ID. When Sun said he had left it at
home, the police took him to a nearby station. By the next day
when his boss and friends showed up with the necessary papers,
Sun had been transferred to a detention center for vagrants. Two
days later, on March 20, he was dead, the victim of a brutal
beating in the center's infirmary.
Last week, in a highly secretive trial, a Guangzhou court meted
out harsh punishmentsincluding two death sentencesto those
deemed to be the culprits in Sun's death. They included a nurse
alleged to have ordered other inmates to beat Sun, and the
inmates accused of complying. But the major accomplice in Sun's
death got off free. The bulk of the blame for Sun's death ought
to fall on a little-known system of administrative
detentionthat is, detention outside of the criminal justice
systemwhereby Chinese citizens can be locked up merely for
being in the wrong place at the wrong time. "Custody and
repatriation," as the system is euphemistically called, exists
to enforce laws that keep impoverished rural dwellers from
overcrowding the country's more prosperous cities. Officially,
custody-and- repatriation (C.-and-R.) centers are responsible
for detaining vagrants, beggars and those who lack permits to
live in cities, and returning them to their hometowns. In
reality, say human-rights experts and those who have experienced
the system firsthand, it's a terrifyingly arbitrary and
routinely abused tool of state power that, at its worst, amounts
to little more than a police-enforced kidnapping-and ransom
scheme.....
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