Detained petitioners stand behind prison gates at Nanyang city’s office on the outskirts of Beijing

Detained petitioners stand behind prison gates at Nanyang city’s office on the outskirts of Beijing September 10, 2007. Chinese officials straining to stifle protest before a key Communist Party meeting have turned to a secretive prison in the nation’s capital that, for a price, has held petitioners in violent squalor, said many complainants. Picture taken September 10, 2007. REUTERS/Chris Buckley (CHINA)