Chinese woman sentenced to a year in prison for a tweet

Ten days after posting a tweet to her twitter account Cheng Jianping was sentenced without trial to be sent to a labour camp for one year. Cheng was participating in a low level of online activism against Japanese products. Essentially this woman has been imprisoned for posting a single tweet of less than 20 characters.

First of all, I already disagree with China's censorship laws which limit freedom of speech. But the imprisonment of a Chinese woman over one tweet by Chinese authorities is completely ridiculous and despicable. This is a social Justice issue in two main ways. One, this woman has been imprisoned unlawfully and without trial. Two, the Chinese government is censoring it's citizens beyond a remotely reasonable amount. For the sake of this woman I hope that this story receives lots of media attention outside of China.