Polity Atlas
Book

Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China

Xi Chen · Cambridge University Press · 2012

Type
Book
Author
Xi Chen
Identifier
DOI 10.1017/CBO9781139053310

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EstablishedHuman Rights Watch documented in 2009 that petitioners in China were held in secret, unlawful detention facilities ('black jails'), often in hotels, nursing homes and psychiatric hospitals, where detainees reported abuse; the government denied that such facilities exist.