Captivity in a Chongqing Labor Camp

"I'm going to the Public Security Bureau, and if I don't come back, plea for justice on behalf of me!" On the afternoon of May 21, 2009 a man named Wang Zhongshuai wrote these words in an Internet chat group.

Then 30 years old, the Jilin-born Wang had been working at an advertising company for two years in the Southwestern metropolis of Chongqing. He graduated with a degree in journalism and communication, and since giving a 2007 speech at a forum, had become a vocal critic of ultra-leftist rhetoric. In 2008, he centered his attention on the case of Yang Jia, a man who went on a stabbing rampage against six police officers in Shanghai. The case generated public outcry over Yang Jia's past grievances in police abuses he received following a wrongful arrest.