Published: June 23, 2013 I didn’t know who Du Bin (杜斌) was until recently when he had made, and released in Hong Kong and online, a documentary (1 hour, with subtitles) about the atrocities at Masanjia Women’s Labor Camp, following an exposé by The Lens magazine in April. Predictably, the online uproar was quickly censored, the magazine suspended, the women who had talked to the journalists threatened. An investigation promised by the local government has not and may never come. On May 31, Du Bin was taken away by security police from his rented apartment in Beijing on charges of “provoking disturbances.” So far, his relatives have not received the notice of detention to which they are entitled by law. However, the security police […]
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