A higher court in Hunan Province will review attempts by the mother of a rape victim to sue a local authority for imprisoning her after she protested the sentences given to her daughter's violators.

High court review for rape victim's mother,Tang Hui.[File photo]

The Hunan Province Higher People's Court said yesterday that it has accepted plaintiff Tang Hui's appeal.

It did not specify a date for the review.

Last year, Tang was briefly placed in a re-education and labor camp over her protests.

Tang appealed to the higher court on April 30 to overturn a judgement made earlier that month by the Intermediate People's Court of the city of Yongzhou.

That court ruled against her lawsuit demanding the local "re-education through labor" commission apologize and pay her 2,463.85 yuan (US$399.50) in compensation for the time she spent in the labor camp.

In October 2006, Tang's then 11-year-old daughter was kidnapped, raped and forced into prostitution. She was rescued on December 30, 2006.

On June 5, 2012, the Hunan Province Higher People's Court sentenced two of the girl's kidnappers to death.

Four others found guilty were given life sentences while another received a 15-year term.

Tang petitioned for harsher punishments for those found guilty.

But she was put into a labor camp in Yongzhou for "seriously disturbing social order and exerting a negative impact on society" during her protest in front of government buildings on August 2, 2012.

She was sentenced to 18 months in the camp, but was released eight days later amid a public outcry urging her release.

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