Students at Chinese Internet Rehab Center Cry SOS

We told you last week about a 16-year-old Chinese boy killed at an internet addiction center called Qihang. Instructors allegedly beat him for moving too slowly during a forced jog. Now a reporter in Guangdong has found signs of similar abuse at another center. Its the so-called internet rehabilitation program at Haojin Vocational School. After the boys death at Qihang became a source of public outcry, authorities closed it down—and stated that affiliates, like Haojin, would be shut down as well. But when a reporter from Guangzhous Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper showed up at Haojin, it was still operational. The reporter saw this scene—which ended up on the paper’s front page. Students scrawled messages reading “SOS” and “beating” so the reporter could take photos. Camp instructors supposedly then rushed upstairs to stop the students. But the full scale of abuse is not yet known—nor has there been an explanation why authorities claimed they had shut down Haojin, but actually never did.