From AP:
Security guards blocked a member of the European Parliament on Tuesday from visiting an activist whose jailed husband recently won the body’s top human rights prize.
Helga Trupel, who was visiting Beijing as a member of an official delegation, attempted to visit to Zeng Jinyan, who has used her blog to bring attention to rights abuses. In 2007, Zeng was named by Time magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.
But about a half-dozen security guards blocked Trupel from entering the “Freedom City” complex where Zeng lives with her infant daughter, as men who appeared to be plainclothes agents looked on and filmed with video cameras. Trupel had been trying to deliver a stuffed toy to the child.
