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Ms Tang’s crime of “disturbing public order” with her protests is one often used by local officials seeking to remove potential causes of embarrassment.
The laojiao system allows those accused of minor offences (which may include prostitutes and house-church Christians(?这样的中国政府不劳教管理吧,不会是说法轮功那会吧?)) to be detained in labour camps without trial for up to four years, simply on the orders of police.
State-controlled media say about 160,000 people were held in around 350 such camps in 2008.
(Another labour-camp system, formerly known as laogai, houses prisoners sentenced by courts.)
As news of Ms Tang’s sentencing spread on Chinese microblogs, even the People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s own mouthpiece, rallied to her cause.
Assessments of a country’s strength, it said on its own microblog, should not only look at such measures as GDP and Olympic gold medals, but also focus on “the rights and dignity of ordinary citizens, and the fairness and justice of society”.
Xinhua, the state-run news agency, said that within five days of the news of Ms Tang’s internment, nearly 700,000 posts about it had appeared on Sina Weibo, the most popular Chinese microblog.
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