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Subject: Obama: Discuss 'Black Jails' with China
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At the same time China welcomes President Obama on his first official visit, thousands of Chinese suffer in secret, unlawful detention facilities known as "black jails," the existence of which the Chinese government denies.
![Report]() Human Rights Watch has interviewed dozens of people who were forcibly detained in these facilities, used primarily by provincial and municipal officials as a means of stopping local residents from complaining to national officials about abuses like illegal land grabs and corruption.
Said one 43-year-old man of his 55-day detainment: "I was beaten [by guards] every three days...they said I didn't respect their work. I couldn't endure it and several times considered suicide." Detainees - men, women and teenagers -- are often physically and psychologically abused. Many are denied food and sleep, and fall victim to theft, extortion or sexual abuse by guards. Obama should voice concerns regarding China's use of black jails on his visit. Beijing is moving backwards on important human rights issues, and it will take focused pressure to stem the government's hostility towards respecting the rule of law. Read more witness testimony of black jails
Read more on Obama's Asia visit and China's human rights record
| | | ![Domestic Workers in Lebanon]() Abject working conditions likely contributed to the deaths of eight migrant domestic workers in Lebanon this October - two deaths per week. Four of the deaths were labeled suicides, three as possible work accidents and one a heart attack. In 2008, a Human Rights Watch study showed that due to such work circumstances, these women died at the rate of more than one a week in Lebanon. Since then, little appears to have changed. Most of these women work long hours without rest or days off and sometimes face insults or violence, with no one to turn to for help. Employers lock them inside the house and seize their passports. "It is like they are living in a cage," said a diplomat representing the country of one dead women. "Human beings need to mingle with others; otherwise they lose their will to live." Read more about the plight of Lebanon's migrant domestic workers. Photograph: Migrants workers hold banners during a protest to support the rights of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, on the occasion of International Women's Day in Beirut on March 8, 2009. (c) 2009 Reuters | | More Headlines Iraqi Christians, Yazidis, and Shabaks have suffered extensively since 2003...Iraqi authorities, both Arab and Kurdish, need to rein in security forces, extremists and vigilante groups to send a message that minorities cannot be attacked with impunity. Read more
Iranian authorities executed Ehsan Fattahian by hanging at Sanandaj Central Prison on November 11, 2009. Nasrollah Nasri, Fattahian's lawyer, said that he and Fattahian's family had believed authorities would grant him a last-minute reprieve, considering the trial's irregularities and the lack of solid evidence. Iran carries out more executions annually than any other nation but China. Read more
On November 6, Cuba's most prominent blogger, Yoani Sánchez, together with blogger Orlando Luís Pardo Lazo, were abducted by three men. Sánchez and Pardo were forced into an unmarked vehicle, beaten, and threatened by their captors before being released onto the street. Read more
After Manufactured Charges and Unfair Trial, Activist Forced to Leave the Country Turkmenistan's release of the environmental activist Andrei Zatoka from prison is a welcome development, but reports that the authorities effectively forced him to leave the country and may have confiscated his apartment, having already brought false charges against him, are troubling. Read more
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should press President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines to prosecute military members responsible for politically motivated killings. Read more
As part of a special investigation into unprosecuted rape cases, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric features an interview with Sarah Tofte, researcher with the US Program at Human Rights Watch. Read more
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