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Chinese labour camps to continue under other name: Amnesty

China’s much-vaunted abolition of its widely loathed “re-education through labour” camps risks being no more than a cosmetic change because of other rights abuses, Amnesty International said Tuesday. Arbitrary detention will persist in unofficial “black prisons”.