According to a Reuters report, 23rd July 2007, a court in South-West China jailed two men who participated in mass protests against China's coercive birth-control policies during May. China's propaganda machine Xinhua reported they were found guilty of falsifying an official document. Following increasingly coercive penalties, for those who violate China's notorious poulation programme, thousands of villagers protested in several towns in Bobai county in the region of Guangxi from May 17-20, ransacking government buildings, burning cars and clashing with police.

The region had failed to met central government demands on population targets and implemented a number of draconian measures, including fines, arrests, detention and confiscation of property. A series of measures, along with forced sterilisations and forced abortions, long associated with the population programme, and conveniently ignored or denied by the UNFPA, Marie Stopes, IPPF, and UK Foreign Office.

The two men were named as, Peng and Li were given sentences of two and one year respectively.