"A local court in the city of Langzhong, Sichuan province held a public sentencing of eight migrant laborers involved in a protest over unpaid wages, saying that the sentencing rally would educate the public about the law — but Chinese media and other observers criticized the move…The workers were reported to have been involved in a protest last August, when some 100 workers gathered in front of a local real estate developer’s office, to demand unpaid wages…"