Excerpted from Fairfax Media:
Human Rights in China executive director Sharon Hom said their treatment showed that the Olympic "protest zones" were no more than a show. "The record speaks for itself: in addition to retaliatory actions, despite numerous applications made, no approvals for demonstrations have been reported."
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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.