A village official in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Wednesday appealed against a two-year sentence of re-education through labor despite being released after serving little more than a year of his term in a labor camp.
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The appeal came nine days after Ren Jianyu, an official in Pengshui County, was freed and eight days after a local court dismissed his father's appeal on his behalf against the imprisonment.
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Ren, 25, was arrested on Aug. 17, 2011 after forwarding and commenting on more than 100 pieces of "negative information" and given a two-year term in a labor camp for "incitement to subvert state power" without a court process a month later.
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The Chongqing municipal re-education through labor committee reviewed the imprisonment, however, and freed Ren on Nov. 19, saying the punishment was "improper."
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A day later, the Chongqing No. 3 intermediate people's court rejected the father's appeal filed in August this year, saying that "the appeal should have come within three months after the re-education term was given."Â