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Chinese teacher sent to labour camp for a year

Wednesday July 30 2008

A Chinese rights group says a teacher who posted pictures on the Internet of schools that collapsed during May's earthquake has been sent to a labour camp for a year.

Human Rights in China says the man has been ordered to serve a year of "re-education through labour" for "disseminating rumours and destroying social order".

Nearly 70,000 people were killed in the massive earthquake in Sichuan province, including thousands of children who died when their poorly built schools collapsed.

The Chinese authorities have been trying to silence parents who have been staging demonstrations to demand an investigation into the standard of the buildings.

 
 

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