China's Olympic Lie

IT'S a rare Olympics that passes by without a whiff of scandal or corruption, tarnishing the golden image once again.

When it won the Olympic bid, China promised to improve its human rights record. Instead, as reporter Aidan Hartley discovers, things have got worse.

In a radical urban redevelopment scheme, Beijing is being remodelled into a shiny new Olympic city. But as old neighbourhoods are demolished, up to 1.5 million people have been forcibly evicted from their homes.

Those who dare to protest often find themselves locked up without charge or trial in one of Beijing's black jails. The authorities deny these jails exist, but, in a world exclusive, Unreported World films inside one of them

In fact, the documentary-makers see more of the prisons than they intended when a dozen guards attack them, smash their camera and detain them for six hours.

Not there yet but it should soon be on Unreported World soon...