Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday.
Ok, while that sounds a bit tame, here's where it starts to bother me...
Li said no cause was given for the order to imprison his 79-year-old mother, Wu Dianyuan, and her neighbor Wang Xiuying, 77.
"Wang Xiuying is almost blind and disabled. What sort of re-education through labor can she serve?" Li said in a telephone interview.
Here's what we know for a fact: China's "setup" of protest zones has been a bunch of BS. 77 protest applications sent in, and NONE allowed. China's promised open media journalism...that's not happening either...
The four unfurled a Tibetan flag and shouted "Free Tibet" south of the "Bird's Nest" National Stadium, the New York-based Students for a Free Tibet said. It put the number of police at 50; a spokeswoman for the Beijing Public Security Bureau declined comment.
"The fact that there were so many undercover police following them it just made them go with the action urgently," said Kate Woznow, the group's campaigns director.
Two Associated Press photographers were roughed up by plainclothes security officers, forced into cars and taken to a nearby building where they were questioned before being released. Memory cards from their cameras were confiscated.
I have a major problem with broken promises and unfair treatment. I understand that different countries have different ideals philosophies, but these are basic things that are being messed with.
It's sad to me how a country operates when it's own citizens, who are sheltered from hearing a lot of the negative already, are applying for protests. It's too bad that these issues will continue to be talked about during what has been a historic Olympic Games
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Sad is right. I don't know what to make of the situation. It's a tough one. I agree, though... There are certain human rights that should be guaranteed.
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