Labour” and similar forms of forced re-education in prisons, pre-trial detention centres and psychiatric hospitals should be abolished. 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. 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 2008). Concerns over the treatment of drug users and persons with HIV/AIDS in administrative detention have been raised. v) Any decision regarding deprivation of liberty must be made by a judicial and not administrative organ. 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 liberty. Non-governmental sources: 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 both the judicial and administrative oversight mechanisms. 47 A/HRC/13/39/Add.6 w) The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government continue to cooperate with relevant international organizations, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, for assistance in the follow-up to the above recommendations.