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State-run magazine reports on black jails in China

BEIJING (AP) — It read like a muckraking expose: A magazine revealed a system of secret detention centers in Beijing where Chinese citizens are forcibly held and sometimes beaten to prevent them from lodging formal complaints with the central government.

But the report appeared in the state-run magazine Liaowang (Outlook), which is written for the government elite and published by China's...

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