Chinese activist detained by police, immediate action needed.Dr. 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. , China's foremost AIDS activist, disappeared in Beijing on August 24. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Liang Yen Yen, one of the coordinators of Dr. Wan's Aizhi (AIDS) Action Project, he has been detained and is being "examined" by the Chinese Ministry of State Security. He is accused of exposing state secrets; namely the AIDS epidemic in China's Henan province brought on by blood selling. Dr. Wan's wife Su Zhaosheng has called on AIDS activists and other allies to help in the effort to expedite his release. Dr. Wan, 38, is a noted free speech advocate who founded the first AIDS telephone hotline in China and operates an important AIDS information web site. A current Fulbright scholar, Dr. Wan is studying the effectiveness of abstinence-only programs in the U.S. and China. For the past decade, Dr. Wan has been working on HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. prevention education, gay & lesbian rights, mental health issues, the rights of people with HIV, and religious issues. He is the 2002 winner of the Human Rights Watch Award for Action on HIV and Human Rights. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists  The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) : "Wan has also been an outspoken opponent of new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. regulations, enacted August 1, which require publishers of all China-based Web sites to register with the government and censor their content or risk being shut down. In late July, Wan and 17 others initiated a "Declaration of Internet Citizens' Rights," which called for freedom of expression, association, and information on the Internet. "Reporting on AIDS is strictly censored in China's press, and Chinese and foreign journalists who investigate the topic have faced harassment or detention. Because of this, Wan Yanhai's Web site has become one of the only independent sources of information on the disease in China." In July, Aizhi Action Project was shut down and stripped of its legal registration by the Chinese government Ever since Republic of China founded in January 1st, 1912, China has had several regional and national governments. List
Dr. Wan's disappearance, which has been covered extensively by The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, National Public Radio and other news outlets, has prompted an international reaction. On September 2, activists held a protest in Hong Kong. Amnesty International Amnesty International (AI,) human-rights organization founded in 1961 by Englishman Peter Benenson; it campaigns internationally against the detention of prisoners of conscience, for the fair trial of political prisoners, to abolish the death penalty and torture of issued an international appeal for immediate letters on his behalf, and U.S. AIDS activists have issued their own appeals. On September 2, 2002, Amnesty International asked that letters and emails for Dr. Wan's release be sent immediately to Chinese officials in Beijing and to Chinese embassies throughout the world. To a send such a message, check: http://www.amnestyusa.org/outfront, or http://www.iglhrc.org/world/ne_asia/China2002Sep.html |
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