Hard Labor for a Tweet

By Greg Scoblete
November 18, 2010

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.

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