Excerpted from Tuscaloosa News:
"Given this moment when the international spotlight is shining on China, when so much of the international media are in Beijing, it's unfathomable why the authorities are intensifying social control," said Sharon Hom, the executive director of Human Rights in China. "The truth is they're sending a clear and disturbing message, one they're not even trying to hide, which is we're not even interested in hearing dissenting voices."
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For more information on this issue:
- HRIC Press Release: “Authorities Relent on Reeducation-Through-Labor Sentence for Elderly Women who Applied for Protest Permit,” August 29, 2008, http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/77060;
- HRIC Press Release: “Two Beijing Residents Sentenced to Reeducation-Through-Labor After Applying for Permits to Demonstrate in Olympics ‘Protest Zones’,” August 19, 2008, http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/67899;
- Human Rights in China's Incorporating Responsibility 2008 Olympics Campaign, updated monthly http://www.ir2008.org.