Thursday, November 18, 2010
Chinese Woman Sentenced to Labor Camp Over Tweet
It's story's like this that make you appreciate that we live in America. A Chinese woman, Cheng Jianping, was sentenced to labor camp after retweeting an angry tweet her fiance sent. Her finance was sentenced to jail but was released after 5 days. Cheng is waiting her appeal. Twitter is illegal in China and anyone caught using it can be arrested.
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6 comments:
Wow. I had no idea. That's insane.
I feel bad for this woman! This is too extreme. Twitter can be very costly at times!
Stories like this remind me that I am so lucky to live in the United States.
Wow. This is a shock to me. Limiting the number of children you can have and no tweeting. Just a bit extreme.
I didn't even know Twitter was illeagl in China. Thats crazy insane. Like you said, makes me thankful to be an American!
Wow. Talk about gender inequalities as well...
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