China jails local government 'interceptors'

[mcnoch]

The Chinese government has now started to act against the so called 'black jails'. Under China's long-standing "petitioning" system, people can request that the central government step in to investigate abuses by local officials at a dedicated complaints office in the Chinese capital. But the officials, eager to protect their reputations, often employ "interceptors" to catch petitioners and detain them in secret facilities known as "black jails" to prevent them from lodging complaints.

Now a number of jail sentences were handed to such interceptors.

www.sinodaily.com/reports/China_jails_local_government_interceptors_report_999.html