Excerpted from Washington Post:
"Punishing Wu and Wang after they applied for protest permits and actively petitioned the government demonstrates that the official statements touting the new Olympics 'protest zones,' as well as the permit application process, were no more than a show," the executive director of Human Rights in China, Sharon Hom, said in a statement.
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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.