From Guardian Unlimited: Chinese police investigating the alleged beating of a land rights activist have concluded that he broke his own neck, prompting accusations of a whitewash from the paralysed man’s family and human rights organisations. Fu Xiancai – a vocal opponent of the Three Gorges Dam – says he was attacked by an unknown […]
From the Independent: Emergency surgery on a leading activist for the rights of farmers displaced by China’s Three Gorges Dam appears to have saved his life but Fu Xiancai is unlikely ever to walk again. His neck was broken by unknown attackers as he walked home from a police interrogation on 8 June. “He had […]
From Guardian Unlimited: One of the most vocal opponents of the Three Gorges dam has been left reportedly paralysed by a savage beating after he ignored police warnings not to speak to foreign journalists. Fu Xiancai, a land-rights activist, was attacked by unknown assailants on his way home from the Zigui public security bureau in […]
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