Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, June 28, 2013
Momentum appears to have seeped out of one of the most promising Chinese legal reforms of the year: a widely cheered plan to do away with the country’s arbitrary police detention system…. Recently, for example, Chinese and foreign media alike have published vivid accounts from women prisoners at the Masanjia laojiao camp in Liaoning Province who say they were made to work long hours with little food and were subjected to torture, such as hanging by cuffs, solitary confinement in a tiny room and other cruel restraints for prolonged periods.