Black Jails in China?!

This is from the Google Site of one of my classmate in Asian Studies class. I just think this article would bring up some disccusion about the "Big Brothers" and censorship.

Since 2003, many Chinese citizens have been held in black jails, secretive and unlawful facilities, which violate their rights with impunity. Most of the citizens being held are petitioners from rural areas that go to Beijing to seek redress for many abuses like government corruption and police torture. As if the abuses aren’t enough already, the inhumane abductors violently detained them and abused them furthermore. Those abuses include physical violence, intimidation, threats, deprivation of food, sleep, medical care, and so forth. The petitioners are only in Beijing to bring justice back to themselves and not have to suffer furthermore. However, instead of being humane and help deal with the problem, government officials, security forces, and their agents abduct the people off the streets, take away their possessions, and imprison them in black jails. Where are the rights of these people? The Chinese government made the law that permits arbitrary detention for vagrants and non-residents illegal, but that doesn’t stop people from detaining these petitioners. In fact, many more are being detained in these black jails for no reason and these detainees have no idea of how long they will be detained for. People can’t just be detained for a reason that the abductors don’t even know and for a however long period of time the abductors feel like detaining them. In addition, even if the Chinese government in June 2009 stated, “there are no black jails in the country”, they should not pay cash payments of 150 yuan to 200 yuan for each person they detained. This will cause many more abductors craving for money to employ for this kind of job. If the Chinese government wants to insist that there are no black jails in China, they should completely get rid of such things; not encourage people to abduct even more people by providing a fair and easy income for them.

Why do you think that even though the government abolishes the law that permits absolute detention for non-residents, black jails are still emerging? (the classmate's question)

video: http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/11/02/china-secret-black-jails-hide-severe-rights-abuses

Man Arrested in internet child porn bust

Quote:

"LAVERGNE, Tenn. - Federal investigators said they arrested Joel Gilchrist on Friday for having 18,000 computer images of children engaged in various sex acts.

The 49-year-old of LaVergne went before a judge on Monday. Gilchrist is a divorced, father of two teenagers.

Neighbors are in shock insisting Gilchrist is a nice, quiet guy who'd kept to himself since being laid-off from the Bridgestone - Firestone plant last December.

The U.S. attorney in Nashville said his office is cracking down on child porn offenders, who are growing in number, he said, largely because of the internet."

-Channel 5 News


You see, this is the society we have now days. We have all sorts of molesters, targeting females ranging from children to old grannies. But what our community will not forgive are the child molesters, having sex with little girls with no signs of embarrassments and guiltiness. We all know that internet had became a major source for viewing sexual materials, and this option is open to people of all age (of course the porn-blocking software are useless). And not only will this conform more sexual offenders, but will also bring young age females into great harm. What the government should do is put these offenders into jail for at least 10 years and when they are out, send them to reeducation centers, so they will not make their previous mistakes. I strongly oppose to child porn.

Aung San Suu Kyi appeals house arrest

Aung San Suu Kyi appeals house arrest

Article From CNN.

Summary:

Two weeks ago, well-known pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi tried appealing her 18-month house arrest to the high court of Myanmar on Friday, the time when the nation’s ruling junta gave freedom to thousands of other political prisoners.

Saturday will be the day that the government will announce the decision of whether Suu Kyi will be freed from home confinement or not. The government will be releasing around 7000 prisoners on Friday if they show good conduct and discipline.

A Human Rights organization estimates there are 2100 political prisoners in Myanmar, and Aung Sun Suu Chi is one of the most well-known under captive. She had spent the last 14 of the 20 years in Burma under house arrest. The U.N Security Council has expressed “serious” concerns over the fairness of the government and the European Union added additional sanctions against the country. Journalist Aung Zaw stated that the chance of the release of Aung San Suu Kyi is indeed very slim, since the regime wants to prevent her from participating in the Myanmar 2010 elections.

Due to her unstopping support for human rights, she had become an iconic face of democracy in her home land and around the world. Her house arrest date extended when a man named John Williams broke into his house months ago just to warn her about something bad is about to happen.

She stated that she didn't want to report Yettaw to the authorities because she didn't want him to get into trouble.

Analysis:

We know that Aung Sung Suu Kyi is a hardcore supporter for human rights, she is a the founder and the leader of the NLD (National League for Democracy). Due to her persuit towards freedom and human rights, she was placed under house arrest for the 14th year of her last 20 in Myanmar. She was disallowed to meet her party supporters and international visitors since she is considered bad influence according to the government. I really think it is about time that she is to be freed from the government, she had been under house arrest for 14 years and even the government didn't have a good reason to hold her in captive anymore. She should definitely be freed when October 2 comes, because if she is not, this will cause another global shudder to the world. More sanctions will be placed upon Myanmar and it's international relationships will be even more fragile. What I found funny was the reason that the regime continued to place Suu Kyi underhouse arrest. The reason that the regime stated was due to the the illicit house entering of an uninvited man named John Williams. The man managed to swim into her backyard and enter. Isn't this hilarious that it was Suu Kyi's fault instead of the governments? In case you didn't know, the house of Suu Kyi was extremely heavily guarded, so does this mean that the man got in without the gaurds noticing?? So what are the purposes of the guards? Had they fallen asleep? Are they just standing there just to prevent Suu Kyi from escaping? I think Suu Kyi should be released if Myanmar's government still wants to withheld their internaitonal relationships.