Mass Arrests In Continuing Chinese Purge
Published: Friday, July 15, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
MASS ARRESTS IN CONTINUING CHINESE PURGE
And what does "re-education through labour" involve?
Police carrying out a nationwide crackdown on gambling in China have detained
or arrested more than 702,000 people, including 1,617 government officials,
since the beginning of the year, the government has said.
The report by the official Xinhua news agency was the latest in a series of
updates on the crackdown. Communist leaders say that gambling is aiding official
corruption and organised crime.
According to the ministry of public security, 3,874 of the suspects were prosecuted,
1,479 were given prison sentences, 5,115 were being "....re-educated through
labour" and 105,000 remained in detention, Xinhua said.
