Reeducation through labor is labor, education and training, referred to as reeducation through labor. The system of reeducation through labor was introduced by People's Republic of China (PRC) from the former Soviet Union, but it is unique to China in the world. Reeducation through labor has no basis in laws and regulations, nor is it a punishment prescribed by the criminal law in legal form, but an administrative punishment according to the relevant laws of the State Council. The public security organ may take measures such as restricting personal freedom, compulsory labor and ideological education for criminal suspects who have been put into reeducation-through-labor places for the longest period of four years without trial and conviction by the court. reeducation through labor is an administrative punishment.
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