Possessing "antistate" material and listening to foreign broadcasts were crimes that could subject the transgressor to harsh punishments, including up to five years of labor reeducation.

拥有“反国家”的材料和收听外国广播是足以让当事人受到严厉惩罚的犯罪，所受惩罚包括最高5年的劳动改造。

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Mr. Nowak visited such detention places as Beijing's Second Prison, Second Detention Center, Beijing's Female Center for Reeducation through Labor and talked with some detainees.

报告员走访了北京第二监狱、第二看守所和北京女子劳教所等羁押场所，并与一些在押人员进行了交谈。

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The system on reeducation through labor played an important role in keeping the social order, which could never be denied with its remaining social-functionally rationality.

劳动教养在我国社会秩序维护方面，起过巨大的作用，这是个任何人都不能否认的事实，它有社会功能的合理性。

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"This announcement is a very good thing but we'd still like to hear them say that they're getting rid of reeducation through labor entirely, " Pu said.

NPR: Official Says China To End Labor Camp Sentences

The move would be a key step in reforming China's judicial system, though details remained unclear, including what would become of existing "reeducation through labor" camps and their current inmates and whether this presages a new system involving court hearings before defendants can be sent to such facilities.

NPR: Official Says China To End Labor Camp Sentences