Chinese authorities have reversed their decision and will not send two elderly women to a labour camp after they applied for a protest permit during the Olympics, a human rights group said today.

A TEACHER in south-west China has been sent to a labour camp for publicising photos of school buildings that collapsed in the devastating May 12 earthquake, a rights group has said.

A rights group said today that a Chinese teacher who posted pictures online of schools that collapsed when a massive earthquake hit Sichuan province in May has been sent to a labour camp for a year.