The new liuzhi detention regime has kept many features of its predecessor, including the power to hold suspects incommunicado in custody and a lack of independent oversight. Bayannur, Inner Mongolia built its liuzhi detention center with a helipad in 2018 on the site of a special education school on the far outskirts of the city. Maxar Technologies/CNN The liuzhi detention center in Qingyang, Gansu province features a two-story detention building, two four-story dormitory buildings, and two office buildings. Google Earth/CNN In Golog prefecture, Qinghai province, the liuzhi detention center was built between 2019 and 2021 next to a county prison. The party never published official figures on shuanggui detention, and the numbers on liuzhi are nearly as elusive.

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