Chinese state media are reporting that a Beijing court has imprisoned 10 men for illegally detaining citizens who tried to lodge complaints with the central government. Under China's "petitioning" system, people can request that the central government investigate abuses by local officials at a complaints office in the capital. However, Beijing's Chaoyang District Court found last month that local officials in the city of Changge in central Henan province hired men to stop ...
Reported by VOA News 1 hour ago.
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