Man sent to labour camp for publishing online photographs

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.

Liu Shaokun was jailed without trial after posting photos on the internet showing schools flattened in the magnitude-8.0 quake in Sichuan province, the New York-headquartered NGO Human Rights in China (HRIC) said.

Liu’s wife was informed by police last week that the school teacher had been sentenced to one year “re-education through labour” for “disturbing public order”, HRIC said.