According to the HRIC (Human Rights In China), a Chinese teacher named Liu Shaokun has been detained for posting pictures on the internet of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake.
The May 12 quake killed 70,000 people, many of them children whose schools collapsed. Grieving parents have staged numerous protests demanding an inquiry into the substandard building conditions of the schools. There is widespread belief that local officials colluded with builders to allow them to get away with cheap and unsafe practices.
After posting the pictures on the internet, Liu Shaokun was detained for "disseminating rumours and destroying social order". Without a trial, the government then sentenced Shaokun to one year of "re-education through labor".
"Instead of investigating and pursuing accountability for shoddy and dangerous school buildings, the authorities are resorting to re-education through labour to silence and lock up concerned citizens like teacher Liu Shaokun and others," said Human Rights in China Executive Director Sharon Hom.
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