Improving Human Rights in China: Should Re-Education Through Labor be Abolished?

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Improving Human Rights in China: Should Re-Education Through Labor be Abolished?

By Mei Ying Gechlik (Veron Hung)

Published on Mar 10, 2003

Source: Carnegie

41 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 303, (2003).

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About the Author

Mei Ying Gechlik (Veron Hung)

Former Non-Resident Associate

Recent Work

Paper
Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in Chinese Courts: An Analysis of Recent Patent Judgments
- Mei Ying Gechlik (Veron Hung)
Paper
Judicial Reform in China: Lessons from Shanghai
- Mei Ying Gechlik (Veron Hung)

Political Reform China

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