Excerpted from Chicago Tribune:

Moreover, applicants could face harsher consequences. Last week, New York-based Human Rights in China reported that two Beijing residents were ordered to serve a 1-year term of "re-education through labor" after they made repeated applications to demonstrate within the protest zones. Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying, who say they were forcibly evicted from their homes in 2001, were judged to be "disturbing the public order," the group said.

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For more information on this issue:

• HRIC Press Release: “Authorities Relent on Reeducation-Through-Labor Sentence for Elderly Women who Applied for Protest Permit,” August 29, 2008, http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/77060;
• HRIC Press Release: “Two Beijing Residents Sentenced to Reeducation-Through-Labor After Applying for Permits to Demonstrate in Olympics ‘Protest Zones’,” August 19, 2008, http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/67899;
• Human Rights in China's Incorporating Responsibility 2008 Olympics Campaign, updated monthly http://www.ir2008.org.