ABSTRACT
In November-December 1952, workers’ organizations in Hong Kong and Taiwan brought a complaint before the Paris-based Commission Internationale Contre le Regime Concentrationnaire (CICRC) against forced labour and concentration camps in the People’s Republic of China. After some preliminary investigations, the CICRC sent a letter to Premier Zhou Enlai informing him of the complaints laid and seeking his permission for a delegation to inspect all correction camps, prisons and penal institutions or institutions of forced labour that might exist in the People’s Republic. This letter was submitted at Geneva on 11 June 1954.
