American Basketball Pro Spent Eight Months in Secretive China Detention A human-rights group says a legal form of Chinese detention that often leaves people cut off from family and lawyers is used at a ‘mass level’ by James Areddy

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THE RIGHT NEWS, FRONT AND CENTER  American Basketball Pro Spent Eight Months in Secretive China Detention A human-rights group says a legal form of Chinese detention that often leaves people cut off from family and lawyers is used at a ‘mass level’ by James Areddy Posted By Ruth King on June 23rd, 2021 https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-basketball-pro-spent-eight-months-in-secretive-china-detention-11624363200?mod=hp_featst_pos3 When Chinese police detained American professional basketball player Jeff Harper in Shenzhen last year, they didn’t formally arrest him, he says, but instead kept him locked in a room with a rancid mattress and a plastic chair for eight months. That form of Chinese detention,...