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The Price of Protest? China Sentences two Old Ladies to Hard Labor

Posted on August 20, 2008

I'll start by admitting that this has nothing to do with venture capital in China - excepted in the broadest possible sense of being about life in China....A number of sources including the Huffington Post are reporting on 79-year-old Wu Dianyuan and her 77-year-old neighbor, Wang Xiuying. The two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics. On Sunday they were order to serve a year long term of reeducation through labor, according to the Huffington Post. Their crime? The two women have been... sHzaam!See full article.Related Entries: China Plans Road to Everest...

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