I think it's more than development pains. Human Rights as a construct goes against many of China's norms. Women aren't viewed in the brightest light and neither are protests against Chinese policies. Mix the two together and you have a recipe for disaster. I'm not trying to sound cruel but while I understand her need to stand up for her rights, or her perceived rights, I have to wonder about her common sense or lack thereof.
Again, I do not mean to be cruel because a great deal of blame lay on the shoulders of the Chinese government. However, she had to know the risks.
Your post has sense and nonsense. How fascinating. You cannot take a child getting put on punishment and compare that to a woman being wrongly imprisoned, beaten, tortured, and starved for days on end.
On the other hand you are correct in that freedom and rights are something we have in the first world. China has no concrete system of human rights and therefore, it's citizens have no rights and are not entitled to anything. They're merely given an allowance. The Chinese government allows them to live there. The government allows them to work there. And so forth. Given that China does not subscribe to the same social contract that we do, the people in China are not entitled to any rights just because they're people. As such, if the people live under the government then that government is allowed to do anything they wish. I don't agree to it but I can't do anything about it either,
And like you said Core, it's just the news. This sort of thing happens everyday, not just in China but in Africa, India, you name a place and there is a person being oppressed, beaten, tortured, for something. I'm guessing there were probably dozens if not hundreds of women in that same region who were imprisoned, got beat up, tortured, etcetera, because that's the type of country China is.