Chinese AIDS Activist Convicted After Speaking Out
The Chinese government has handed a one year prison sentence to AIDS
activist Tian Xi for damaging property at the hospital where he was
infected with HIV.
In December, the Update named Tian one of 2010's unsung AIDS heroes
for his relentless advocacy on behalf of Chinese people living with
HIV. For years, he has petitioned officials to compensate him and tens
of thousands of others infected with HIV through China's contaminated
national blood supply.
Tian's lawyer reports that Tian was weak at his court appearance last
week, as he is struggling to recover from a cold. Officials are
holding him in an unheated cell at a local detention center with a
half-dozen other inmates with HIV/AIDS, the lawyer said.
According to the Aizhixing Institute, China's first AIDS nonprofit,
Tian's mother threw herself in front of police car after the
sentencing, attempting to prevent police from taking her son away.
(See image below.)
In August, police detained Tian after he visited a hospital in the
south-central province of Henan, seeking to speak with the hospital's
director. The Chinese government charged him with destroying items in
the office. Amnesty International reports that the director refused to
address Tian's concerns, and physically rebuffed him. After, Tian
pushed items off the director's desk.
Untold numbers of Chinese were infected with HIV through blood
transfusions in the 1990s. While many nations experienced similar
outbreaks of HIV in the blood supply early in the epidemic, China is
the only one that has refused to create a compensation program.
"No official has ever been held accountable, and some have even been
promoted," said Meg Davis, cofounder of the U.S.-based China AIDS
Solidarity Network. "Considering that the normal sentence for this
crime is three to four months, longer than [Tian] has already served
in detention, it's clear that this [punishment] is retaliation for his
AIDS activism."
Sara L.M. Davis, Ph.D. ("Meg")
Executive Director
Asia Catalyst
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