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Chinese Professor Creates Microblog to End Child-Abduction and Forced Child Beggars

Scholar Yu Jianrong launched a microblog site for people to post photos of child beggars, in an effort to raise awareness of the issue and even reunite parents with their kidnapped children. From the Ministry of Tofu blog:On January 25, 2011, Yu Jianrong, a famous human rights activist and sociologist, launched a Sina microblog in which he called on Chinese netizens to wield their camera lenses,