Top China Aids critic ‘is seized’ – Jonathan Watts


From The Guardian:

A leading Aids campaigner in China has vanished, feared detained by police, after the authorities ordered him to cancel a conference that was to have looked at the state’s responsibility for infections and blood safety.

Wan Yanhai, head of the Aizhi advocacy group, appears to be the third prominent activist to have been targeted in a crackdown ahead of World Aids Day on Friday that raises questions about the government’s commitment to be more open about its handling of the epidemic. [Full text]

-Also see AIDS Activist Is Detained On Eve of Meeting in China from the Washington Post

(Photo of Wan Yanhai)

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