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Chinese authorities allow rare glimpse inside detention facility
Police officers guard a hospital ward while visiting journalists are led on a government-organized tour at the Number Two Detention Center in Beijing on Oct. 25, 2012. Detention centers in China are primarily for people who have been detained by police on suspicion of committing a criminal offense and are awaiting trial.Alexander F. Yuan / AP
By PhotoBlog
Journalists were taken on a government-organized tour of a detention center in Beijing on Thursday. The rare access to the facility, which has capacity for 1,000 inmates, was offered to the international media as China prepares for the Communist Party Congress, which is due to open on Nov. 8.
Detention centers in China are primarily for people who have been detained by police on suspicion of committing a criminal offense and are awaiting trial.