警察先把田喜强行从家里送往医院，随后说他破坏医院公物。这个政府是土匪，还是自己声称的“人民政府”？（万延海）
Police detain Aids activist, claiming he damaged hospital
Verna Yu
Updated on Aug 24, 2010
An Aids sufferer turned activist who contracted the disease as a child has been detained by police in Henan province, ostensibly for damaging hospital property, his parents said yesterday.
Police told Tian Xi's parents on Saturday that their 23-year-old son had been put in criminal detention for "intentionally damaging property" at a local hospital in Xincai county, where he had been kept against his will since last Tuesday.
Tian has repeatedly petitioned the local and central governments, demanding compensation. He has also worked for the high-profile Aids advocacy group Aizhixing, whose director, Wan Yanhai , fled to the United States in May alleging government harassment.
Tian's mother said police took her son forcibly from home to the hospital last Tuesday. And without informing them, they transferred him directly to a police detention centre two days later. It was only when police issued a notification of his official detention that the parents learned of his whereabouts.
Tian Demin said his son had for years fought for compensation from a local public hospital from which he contracted HIV and hepatitis B and C in a blood transfusion in 1996, when he was nine. But neither the hospital nor the local government had been willing to negotiate with him.
Tian returned home from Beijing, where he now lives, late last month, after receiving a message saying the county Communist Party secretary was willing to talk about his compensation issues. But after he returned to Henan, he was angry to find the party chief unwilling to meet him.
"If my child has indeed damaged hospital property, we're willing to pay for it, but they need to compensate us, too," Tian's father said. "They have caused lifelong suffering in my child already ... Even if he has overreacted, it is understandable."
More than a week ago, Tian told fellow activists that county officials resented his repeated protests and urged local police to detain him, saying he was a former Aizhixing employee with anti-government views, according to Dr Sara Davis, executive director of the New York-based Asia Catalyst, which works with mainland grass-roots groups on Aids projects.
Xincai county police refused to comment when contacted by a reporter. Calls to other officials in the county rang unanswered.
Last month, Tian was held at a detention centre in Beijing for several hours for trying to petition the authorities over his case, Aizhixing said.
Local courts had long refused to handle cases of those who contracted HIV/Aids through blood transfusion in public hospitals, Aizhixing said.
The government has been pressing prominent Aids campaigners for years. Apart from Aizhixing's Wan, Dr Gao Yaojie, the mainland's most high-profile HIV/Aids whistle-blower, also left China for the US last year. Fellow activist Hu Jia was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison on the charge of "inciting subversion of state authority" in 2008.
Copyright © 2010 South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All right reserved
Verna Yu
Updated on Aug 24, 2010
An Aids sufferer turned activist who contracted the disease as a child has been detained by police in Henan province, ostensibly for damaging hospital property, his parents said yesterday.
Police told Tian Xi's parents on Saturday that their 23-year-old son had been put in criminal detention for "intentionally damaging property" at a local hospital in Xincai county, where he had been kept against his will since last Tuesday.
Tian has repeatedly petitioned the local and central governments, demanding compensation. He has also worked for the high-profile Aids advocacy group Aizhixing, whose director, Wan Yanhai , fled to the United States in May alleging government harassment.
Tian's mother said police took her son forcibly from home to the hospital last Tuesday. And without informing them, they transferred him directly to a police detention centre two days later. It was only when police issued a notification of his official detention that the parents learned of his whereabouts.
Tian Demin said his son had for years fought for compensation from a local public hospital from which he contracted HIV and hepatitis B and C in a blood transfusion in 1996, when he was nine. But neither the hospital nor the local government had been willing to negotiate with him.
Tian returned home from Beijing, where he now lives, late last month, after receiving a message saying the county Communist Party secretary was willing to talk about his compensation issues. But after he returned to Henan, he was angry to find the party chief unwilling to meet him.
"If my child has indeed damaged hospital property, we're willing to pay for it, but they need to compensate us, too," Tian's father said. "They have caused lifelong suffering in my child already ... Even if he has overreacted, it is understandable."
More than a week ago, Tian told fellow activists that county officials resented his repeated protests and urged local police to detain him, saying he was a former Aizhixing employee with anti-government views, according to Dr Sara Davis, executive director of the New York-based Asia Catalyst, which works with mainland grass-roots groups on Aids projects.
Xincai county police refused to comment when contacted by a reporter. Calls to other officials in the county rang unanswered.
Last month, Tian was held at a detention centre in Beijing for several hours for trying to petition the authorities over his case, Aizhixing said.
Local courts had long refused to handle cases of those who contracted HIV/Aids through blood transfusion in public hospitals, Aizhixing said.
The government has been pressing prominent Aids campaigners for years. Apart from Aizhixing's Wan, Dr Gao Yaojie, the mainland's most high-profile HIV/Aids whistle-blower, also left China for the US last year. Fellow activist Hu Jia was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison on the charge of "inciting subversion of state authority" in 2008.
Copyright © 2010 South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All right reserved
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