Beneath the thin veneer of calm at the Asian games. a dark and systematic pattern of abuses persists. The Chinese leaders have launched a nationwide anticrime campaign to stem political unrest during the games. Chinese prisoners are being executed by. the hundreds without adequate judicial procedures. And the police are evicting peasant migrant workers and barring those who lack special permission from entering the capitol city. The human rights organization Asia Watch estimates that as many as 1.000 people remain in prison in China for political and religious activities. The vast majority of these prisoners are being held without proper charges or trials and have been detained for nothing more than peaceful political expression.