China sentences tweeter to a year of forced labor
Be careful what you tweet in China:
Amnesty International today urged the Chinese authorities to release a woman sentenced to a year in a labour camp for retweeting a supposedly anti-Japanese message.Chinese online activist Cheng Jianping was sentenced to one year of â??Re-education Through Labourâ?? on Monday for â??disturbing social orderâ?, having retweeted a satirical suggestion on October 17 that the Japanese Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo be attacked.
