The penal system in China is composed of an administrative detention system and a judicial incarceration system. As of 2020, it is estimated that 1.7...

authority beyond what is granted to them by the NPC under a system of unified power. The Chinese Communist Party's Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission...

The penal system of Japan (including prisons) is part of the criminal justice system of Japan. It is intended to resocialize, reform, rehabilitate and...

Chinese: 勞教; pinyin: láojiào) was a system of administrative detention on mainland China. Active from 1957 to 2013, the system was used to detain persons who...

According to an Al Jazeera special report on slavery, China has the largest penal labour system in the world today. Often these prisoners are used to produce...

A penal colony or exile colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location...

(simplified Chinese: 五七干校; traditional Chinese: 五七幹校) were a system of rural communes in China established during the Cultural Revolution to train Chinese Communist...

since pursuing redress through the legal system is too expensive for rural Chinese, petitioning in modern China has become the only channel for seeking...

five principal punishments stipulated in Article 33 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China. In the Criminal Law, there are 87 penalties...

the Anti-Rightist Movement and the Cultural Revolution, the judicial system of China was often used for political persecution of rivals, and penalties such...