Human Rights

The annual legislative plan of China's national legislature proposed a law on correction of illegal acts which will take a fresh look at abolishing the long-disputed re-education-through-labor system, or laojiao. The law, which had been listed in the annual legislative plan since 2005, was put aside for two years because of disagreements. The Justice Ministry estimates that about 400,000 people have served their terms in 310 laojiao institutions.