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Female citizens have been expected to exercise their sexuality within marriage, and had been honored for his or her sexual integrity (pudicitia) and fecundity: Augustus granted special honors and privileges to women who had given beginning to a few children (see "Ius trium liberorum"). Government and CCP cadres in the TAR and Kardze (Ganzi) Prefecture in Sichuan weren't allowed to send their children to review abroad. On March 8, police detained Isabel Hormaeche, a producer with broadcaster TVE, and her staff in Sichuan Province. On February 26, police in Machu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, arrested Kunchok Tsephel Gopey Tsang, owner of the Tibetan cultural and literary Web site "The Lamp," which was taken off the Internet for a number of months. Cellphone service and Internet service within the TAR and the Tibetan areas of Sichuan, Qinghai, and Gansu provinces had been curtailed at times in the course of the March interval of sensitive anniversaries and the brand new "Serf Liberation Day" (see Academic Freedom and Protection of Cultural Heritage). Some Tibetans reported that at occasions they have been in a position to obtain such radio broadcasts despite frequent jamming. For example, on February 27, PSB authorities detained Edward Wong and Jonathan Ansfield, two New York Times reporters, in Gansu Province for practically 24 hours and forced them to board a flight back to Beijing the subsequent day.