so many people want a voice in Chinese government
and the CCCP tells them their voice is cherished
however, the CCCP does not want to hear any voice of protest
so insecure, so ugly....so obvious, who cares? yes, who knows?
Protest women to be 'reeducated': report
AAP - August 20, 2008, 8:05 pm
Two elderly Chinese women who applied to demonstrate at official Olympic protest zones have been ordered to serve one year each of reeducation through labour, a human rights group says.
Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang Xiuying, 77, who were forcibly evicted from their Beijing homes in 2001, applied five times for permits to protest during the Games, Human Rights in China said.
As a result they were interrogated for 10 hours and then sentenced to one year of "Reeducaton Through Labour", the group said.
It said the women would not be sent to a labour camp immediately but would have their movements restricted and be sent off to detention if they caused more trouble.
Beijing police said on Monday that dozens of protest park applications had been received but none had been approved.
The vast bulk of the 77 applications were withdrawn because the relevant authorities had addressed the problems through "consultations", state media quoted police as saying.
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