article_snippet.sent: Perhaps this is what the government finds threatening: that these activists epitomize the spirit of the times.
article_snippet.sent: these activists are young, confident, ready to challenge established norms, and most importantly, these activists feel responsible for these activists society and these activists want to improve it.
article_snippet.sent: But even if these activists are released, these activists work promoting women's rights will have become exponentially more difficult.
article_snippet.sent: The women will now be labeled "sensitive" individuals at a time when the authorities are increasingly paranoid about independent groups, The women role in fostering nonviolent protests and the overthrow of oppressive governments (known as "color revolutions"), and foreign funding of civil society organizations.
article_snippet.sent: What Wu and Wu colleagues are now enduring is consistent with a broader government effort to strangle independent activism.  
article_snippet.sent: Authorities have harassed and detained an ever expanding list of activists, and imprisoned others, but Authorities have also tried to co-opt some groups by allowing Authorities to provide services the government finds acceptable, so long as Authorities abandon Authorities activism.
article_snippet.sent: This kind of "differentiated management" of nongovernmental organizations — punishing some but co-opting others — may work to neutralize some of the more outspoken groups.