Too Old and Frail to Re-educate? Not in China

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There Will Be No Protesting in China's Designated Protest Zones
Published 8/20/2008 at The Sporting Blog
Old women can be so annoyingly persistent. Take these two old Chinese broads (pictured) who had the audacity to try and protest at the Beijing Olympics in one of the two areas officially designated for, well, protest: ...

Sorry, Little Old Ladies, But There Will Be No Protesting in China's Designated Protest Zones
Published 8/20/2008 at The Sporting Blog
Old women can be so annoyingly persistent. Take these two old Chinese broads (pictured) who had the audacity to try and protest at the Beijing Olympics in one of the two areas officially designated for, well, protest: ...

CHINA CRACKS DOWN ON ELDERLY WOMEN
Published 8/21/2008 at With Leather - Sports news and gossip to brighten this short, dark life
China's finally nailed down the #1 threat to a peaceful Olympic Games: trouble-making septuagenarian women.  Two of them were just sentenced to a year of "re-education through labor." The women, Wu Dianyuan [pictured, center], 79, and Wang Xiuying [left], 77, had made five visits to the police this month in an effort to get permission to protest what they contended was inadequate compensation for the demolition of their homes in Beijing. Just so we're clear on what happened: the Chinese government demolished their homes, and they never even protested.  They only tried to get permission to do so.  And ...