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China: Women’s Rights Activist Sentenced to Labour Camp

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–November 6, 2012. The Chinese authorities must immediately release prominent women’s rights activist, Mao Hengfeng, who has been sentenced to one and a half years in a labour camp, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

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Mao Hengfeng is a relentless campaigner for reproductive rights and against forced evictions in China.

Her family learned today that she has been sentenced to ‘re-education through labour’ for ‘disturbing social order’.

“Mao Hengfeng’s sentence is a damning indictment of…

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