“Where Darkness Knows No Limits”

Incarceration, Ill-Treatment and Forced Labor as Drug Rehabilitation in China

Summary

I. Recommendations

To Chinese Government Ministries of Public Security, Justice, Interior, and Health

Regarding drug detention centers

Regarding community-based interventions with drug users

Regarding the Anti-Drug Law

To United Nations Agencies and International Donors Providing Assistance or Carrying Out Programs on HIV/AIDS in China

II. Methodology

III. Background

Illicit Drug Use in China

Chinese Government’s Response to Drug Use

Anti-Drug Law of the People’s Republic of China

HIV/AIDS and Injection Drug Use in China

Drug Use and HIV/AIDS in Yunnan Province

The Unbreakable Cycle, from Guangxi to Yunnan

IV. Findings

Police Harassment and Arrest

Sentencing to Drug Detention/Community Rehabilitation

Drug Dependency Treatment

Conditions in drug detention centers

Forced labor and violence against detainees

General Conditions and Threats to Health

Discrimination

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