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Many Chinese citizens die "unnaturally" in the detention center run by the Ministry of Public Security. This animated video asks what is the true function of detention centers and why so many unjust deaths occur there?

By John Prendergast and Omer Ismail of the Enough Project

By Christopher Hitchens
It's an old story, but it bears retelling. One day at the dawn of the 1960s, a lawyer named Peter Benenson was reading the newspaper on the London subway. He came across a small item reporting that two students from Portugal--then still a fascist dictatorship running a filthy empire in Africa--had been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for raising a toast to liberty in a public place in Lisbon. After a short cogitation, he decided to take action, and his open letter concerning "prisoners of conscience" was published on the front page of the London Observer. You may never have heard or read about this micro-event or its macro consequences, but I am willing to wager that you have heard of Amnesty International, which was the great tree that sprouted from this acorn.