BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court dismissed on Friday a compensation claim by a mother sent to a labour camp after she demanded justice for her daughter who had been raped, in a high-profile case that sparked debate about reform of the labour-camp system.
Authorities in the southern city of Yongzhou sentenced Tang Hui to 18 months in a labour camp last August for "disturbing social order" after she demanded that the men who had raped her then 11-year-old daughter be given the death penalty.
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