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| Two women sentenced to ‘re-education’ |
| By The New York Times |
| Published: 08/20/2008 |
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CHINA - Two elderly Chinese women have been sentenced to a year of “re-education through labor” after they repeatedly sought a permit to demonstrate in one of the official Olympic protest areas, according to family members and human rights advocates. Seventy-nine-year-old Wu Dianyuan, right, and her neighbor Wang Xiuying, 77, waited to apply for a protest permit outside a public security bureau in Beijing on Monday. They were later sentenced to a year of "re-education through labor." Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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