Bloomberg : China Squelches Speech the Simple, Ancient Way

Excerpted from Bloomberg:

Complaints like those of the two former neighbors, Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying, are common. Perhaps because of that, instead of permits, they were given one-year sentences to "re- education through labor" for "disturbing the public order," according to New York-based Human Rights in China and to an account in yesterday's New York Times.

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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.