In China, two elderly women could face a year of reeducation in a labor camp, because they applied for permits to demonstrate during the Olympics. The Washington Post reports the two women went to Chinese police five times this month to seek approval to protest against officials who evicted them from their homes in 2001. During their fourth attempt to get a protest permit, the women were told they might be ordered to serve a year of time in a reeducation camp for disturbing the public order. Since the start of the Olympics, the Chinese government has yet to permit a single demonstration in any of the three official protest zones in Beijing.