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Fri 08 Aug 2008'Re-education' for protest applicants
CHINA:CHINA HAS sentenced two elderly women to a year of "re-education through labour" after the pensioners applied for permission to air their grievances in as-yet unused "protest parks" in Beijing.
Wu Dianyuan (79), and her neighbour Wang Xiuying (77), were told they would be sent to a "laojiao" labour camp for a year for applying repeatedly to protest against officials who evicted them from their homes in 2001.
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