Recommendation (E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.6) the basis of vaguely defined political crimes, both before and after the 1997 reform of the CL, should be released. u) ―Re-education through Labour‖ and similar forms of forced re-education in prisons, pre-trial detention centres and psychiatric hospitals should be abolished. Steps taken in previous years (See A/HRC/4/33/Add.2, A/HRC/7/3/Add.2, A/HRC/10/44/Add.5 and A/HRC/16/52/Add.2) Information received in the reporting period Non-governmental sources: The discussions on RTL in the National People‘s Congress have not yielded official results. However, the available statistical data suggest that the use of RTL is declining, partly due to the sending of drug-related offenders to ―coercive quarantine for drug rehabilitation (CQDR)‖, a new form of administrative detention for drug addicts initiated under the new Drug Prohibition Law (effective 1 June 08). Concerns over the treatment of drug users and persons with HIV/AIDS in administrative detention have been raised. Non-governmental sources: It is reported that punitive administrative detention and RTL continue to be used to supplement formal criminal sanctions, without judicial oversight or access to a judge. In addition, the increasing use of house arrests and alleged black detention sites places detainees outside 23 A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 v) Any decision regarding deprivation of liberty must be made by a judicial and not administrative organ. Situation in during visit in 2005 (See E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.6) and other non-violent offences After the 1997 changes, political dissidents, journalists, writers, lawyers, human rights defenders, Falun gong practitioners and members of the Tibetan and Uighur ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities continued to be prosecuted for peacefully exercising their human rights on the basis of vaguely defined crimes and sentenced to long prison terms. RTL and other forms of administrative detention had been used for many years against political groups, Falun Gong practitioners and human rights defenders, accused of politically deviant and dissident behaviour, disturbance of the social order or similar petty offences. Some of these measures of re-education through coercion, humiliation and punishment were aimed at altering the personality of detainees up to the point of breaking their will. RTL and other forms of forced re-education in administrative detention were solely based on administrative regulations and decisions without judicial control over the deprivation of