Big brother is watching. (China).The last time anyone saw Wan Yanhai Wan Yanhai is the best-known AIDS activist in China. His "frank and aggressive" approach toward AIDS have led to frequent run-ins with authorities and landed him in detention three times in the past 12 years. , one of China's best-known AIDS activists, was when he left a gay and lesbian film screening in Beijing. That was August 24. On September 6, Wan's friend and fellow activist Hu Jia said Wan was being detained by China's Ministry of State Security because he recently revealed that an unsanitary un·san·i·tar·y adj. Not sanitary. blood-buying industry was responsible for spreading the AIDS virus AIDS virus n. See HIV. in the central province of Henan. Chinese government officials have not confirmed that they have detained Wan. Daniel Lee of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) is an international organisation addressing human rights violations against lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and people with HIV/AIDS. said activists speculate that the whistle-blowing whistle-blowing, exposure of fraud and abuse by an employee. The federal law that legitimated the concept of the whistle-blower, the False Claims Act (1863, revised 1986), was created to combat fraud by suppliers to the federal government during the Civil War. Wan has been charged with revealing state secrets because his findings showed that the government had been aware of the risk to public health. "The fact that he is possibly being held for `revealing state secrets' greatly concerns us," said Lee, who likened the blood scandal to the U.S. Public Health Service's 1932-1972 study in Alabama in which black men with syphilis were denied effective treatment so the government could study the progression of the disease. "It's a matter of public health," he said. "This isn't the Manhattan Project. It's more like the Tuskegee incident." |
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