Teng and Lan said they appealed last month to the Discount Baume & Mercier government to overturn Cheng's sentence but they received no response.The city authorities' punishment of Cheng -- who merely posted the seemingly flippant comment "Angry Youth! Charge!" -- was a "crude trampling of her lawful right to free speech," the lawyers said.China Discount Bell&Ross debated the future of RTL for more than a decade with many experts and even government officials arguing that it violates the national constitution.
The Charter 08 manifesto for democratic reform in China -- which was signed by intellectuals and rights activists and helped to win one of Discount Blancpain authors, Liu Xiaobo, last year's Nobel Peace Prize -- also included a call for the abolition of RTL.The Ministry of Public Security appears to have thwarted efforts to abolish the system, insisting that it needs the punishment to deal with minor crimes and those that are inadequately covered by legislation.
The debate intensified last year after the widely reported deaths of two prisoners at separate labour camps. Officials said one prisoner had died after a freezing winter shower and the other had starved to death."How come the RTL system is not Discount Breguet after 'cold shower death' and 'skeleton death'?" a China Youth Daily commentary asked in May.Yu Jianrong, a social scientist and long-term campaigner against RTL, said it has caused "widespread dissatisfaction" among the public.
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