10月10日是世界精神卫生日，中国民间《中国精神健康与人权》月刊向当局发出公开信，呼吁当局在即将出台的《精神卫生法》中，尊重《宪法》赋予人的尊严，彻底遏制“被精神病”，保护公民的基本权利。另外，四名“被精神病”的受害者本周二寄信给500家精神病院和法院，提醒当局尊重人权。
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(October 10, 2012 11:07 am by Simon Rabinovitch) Clad in a blue plaid shirt and speaking with a rural accent, Miao Cuihua trips over her words as she demands unpaid wages, her “blood and sweat money” for toiling on a construction project.
香港 — 中国司法当局承认劳教制度存在弊端，并称改革劳教制度已成社会共识。但中国的法律工作者认为，劳教制度违反中国宪法，不要改革，需要的是根本废除。
中国国务院新闻办10月9日首次发布的司法改革白皮书有5个章节，1.8万字，然而其中并没有提及屡受诟病的中国劳教制度。
*中国官员：正在研究改革方案*
一名德国记者在新闻发布会上提出问题：为什么在白皮书中没有看到提到劳教问题？劳教问题为什么还没有得到解决？特别是考虑到有很多人大代表都呼吁废除劳教制度。
BEIJING (AP) — China's government is working on reforms to its system of imprisoning people in labor camps without trial, a senior judicial official said Tues
China is working to revise its system of labour camps, where people can be jailed for up to four years without trial, a senior judicial official says.
Jiang Wei, head of judicial system reform, said the camps had an important role in keeping social order but there was a wide consensus for reform.
A dozen Chinese petitioners are held in an unofficial detention center to keep them from bringing their complaints to the government.
Some dozen elderly petitioners are held at the black jail in Guangxi in a photo taken on Sept. 27, 2012.
中国诺贝尔和平奖得主刘晓波妻子刘霞被软禁近两年后，最近传出承受极大精神压力。有消息说，当局试图利用刘霞逼迫刘晓波出国。刘晓波获奖两周年之际，外界持续呼吁释放他和刘霞。
本周一是诺贝尔和平奖得主刘晓波获奖两周年之日，英国广播公司BBC周一引述消息人士的讲话透露，刘霞正承受着精神上的压力，当局希望通过禁锢刘霞来向在狱中的刘晓波施压让他离开中国。
A Tibetan man self-immolates after calling for Tibetan unity against Chinese rule.
Authorities hand down a one-year labor sentence to a woman who tried to boost the morale of Chinese petitioners.
Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that more Tibetans, including a minor, have been given long jail sentences for trying to circulate information about the grave human rights situation in the Tibetan region, where at least 52 people have set fire to themselves since February 2009.