This is nutty

China is preparing to overhaul a key criminal law amid public confusion _ and some dread _ over whether the government is about to give police the legal authority to disappear people.

At issue is an amendment to the criminal procedure law that would allow police to secretly detain suspects for months without informing their families. The effect would be to legalize the secret detentions police have increasingly been using against political critics, activist lawyers and other dissidents. Activist Hu Jia, himself living under a form of house arrest, has dubbed it the "KGB clause." Las Vegas Sun

Stupid Chinese apparatchiks