UPDATE: On September 2, 2010, ChinaGeeks about Tian Xi’s arrest.
A few months ago Samuel Green wrote a piece for us that assessed the current levels of knowledge about HIV/AIDS amongst Chinese, as well as their attitudes towards HIV/AIDS sufferers.
In some ways, things are on the mend. in Chinese history was filed today. But, in others, things are still not looking so good.
Yesterday Charles Custer put of a Chinese language blog post about HIV/AIDS activist, Tian Xi, himself afflicted with the virus after a botched blood transfusion in the 1990s, who was detained in Henan province for “damage to commercial property”. The hook of this otherwise all too common story is that Tian Xi is being denied treatment while detained.
It’s almost like the police officers in question don’t understand the seriousness of the disease? Or perhaps they just view Tian Xi to be a miscreant. Either way, it doesn’t speak well of the captors.
I don’t want to generalize too broadly from this example, so I’ll let you read both stories (Samuel’s and the ) and draw your own conclusions.
Just for the purpose of perspective…America .
Corrections note: A previous version of the article stated that Tian Xin was arrested after petitioning the government. This happened during a previous arrest, but this time Tian Xin was arrested for “damage to commercial property”.
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