Elderly women to be ’re-educated’ for Olympic protest: rights group

From abc.net

Two elderly Chinese women who applied to demonstrate at official Olympic protest zones have been ordered to serve one year each of reeducation through labour, a human rights group said.

Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang Xiuying, 77, who were forcibly evicted from their Beijing homes in 2001, applied five times for permits to protest during the Games, Human Rights in China said.

As a result they were interrogated for 10 hours and then sentenced to one year of "Reeducaton Through Labour", the group said.

They will not be sent to a labour camp immediately but will have their movements restricted and be sent off to detention if they cause more trouble, the group added in a statement.