Internet links up public and delegates

While delegates demonstrated a new openness towards online suggestions at this year's annual sessions of the National People's Congress and its top advisory body, they remained as tight-lipped as ever on the most substantive and sensitive issues.

Zhou Ze, a Beijing lawyer who helped the last person jailed for hooliganism on the mainland appeal for clemency, posted a short appeal on Sina's Weibo, or microblog, service, tagging more than 40 delegates and hoping to receive even one reply.

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