{"id":21012,"date":"2010-07-30T16:15:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_secret_jails_used_to_enforce_chinas_hidden_rules\/"},"modified":"2010-07-30T16:15:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:15:17","slug":"npr_secret_jails_used_to_enforce_chinas_hidden_rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21012","title":{"rendered":"NPR: Secret Jails Used To Enforce China&#39;s &#39;Hidden Rules&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;there are many instances in which the laws on the books don&#8217;t have much effect, and society runs according to a completely different set of unwritten rules. Some Chinese call these &#8220;hidden rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An example of how these hidden rules work can be found just a couple minutes&#8217; walk from one of Beijing&#8217;s busiest downtown intersections.<\/p>\n<p>There sits a small hotel run by the government of South China&#8217;s Guangxi province. Provincial officials occasionally use the hotel to secretly detain people who come to the capital to complain about local government abuses. They are kept under a sort of house arrest until they can be shipped home.<\/p>\n<p>China has denied the existence of &#8220;black jails&#8221; to the United Nations&#8217; human rights commission, but almost anyone petitioning the government can show you one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128825986\">Read or better yet listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;there are many instances in which the laws on the books don&#8217;t have much effect, and society runs according to a completely different set of unwritten rules. Some Chinese call these &#8220;hidden rules.&#8221; An example of how these hidden rules<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21012\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,201,502,114,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-china","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}