Volume 47, Number 8 · May 11, 2000
China's Dirty Clean-Up
By Sophia Woodman
Every year, millions of China's poorest and most vulnerable people are arrested on the streets of the nation's cities merely because the way they look or speak identifies them clearly as 'outsiders,' not native to the city in question, or because they are mentally ill or homeless. Yet before the release of a Human Rights in China report[1] on the fate of such people, this routine, officially sanctioned practice of treating citizens like illegal immigrants in their own country had received virtually no attention internationally, and almost no critical reporting inside China.
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