Chinese Woman Sentenced to One Year of Hard Labor for Tweet

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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/11/chinese-woman-sentenced-to-one-year-of-hard-labor-for-tweet/66765/

Nov 18 2010, 11:52 AM ET

Cheng Jianping, @wangyi09, was sentenced to a year of hard labor in a Chinese "re-education" camp for retweeting a message from her fiance urging protesters to destroy a section of the Shanghai Expo.

The tweet was actually a retweet, sent by her fiance Hua Chunhui in the midst of anti-Japanese demonstrations in China last month. The original tweet urged the protesters to smash Japan's pavilion at the Shanghai Expo; Cheng Jianping merely retweeted it, adding the words, "Charge, angry youth."