Unfortunately, it took the detention of a famous male actor for the Chinese media to criticize an unlawful detention system that has long been used against low-income female sex workers. Neither was charged with a crime. Neither ever saw the inside of a courtroom. But the Beijing police diverged from the usual pattern when, on May 15, , it went after Huang Haibo and presumably a high-end.
At first, the police gave Huang and his cohort a lighter sentence of 15 days administrative detention under the more generic Public Security Administrative Punishment Law. There is no impartial judge that the individual can appeal to; there is no lawyer. While there is an appeal mechanism, the first step is to ask the police to reconsider the sentence Art.
Only after that reconsideration can the individual seek to bring a lawsuit against the state. But without a lawyer, that rarely happens.
But those due process violations alone were not enough to overturn RTL. Also instrumental was the fact that RTL was not based in law. As a result, RTL was in violation of legal procedure. Making its abolishment legally necessary. But one thing to factor in is the amount of money which the.
Another source of income: the detainees themselves. Ironically, the Management Measures require that the detainees completely cover the costs of their own detention Art. Also inflated are the costs of goods. According to the Asia Catalyst interviewees , goods are several times more expensive than on the outside.
