Excerpted from The Guardian:
The watchdog Human Rights in China said Huang had been detained on June 10 after visiting areas affected by the earthquake in May, centered in Sichuan province.
The group said Huang's purpose there had been to write about parents whose children had died or were missing in the quake.
"This is another illustration of how a person who is only trying to help might find himself snared by China's state secrets laws," the watchdog's executive director, Sharon Hom, said.
"This use of the law as a sword hanging over rights activists, such as Huang Qi, contradicts the reported 'new media openness' in China following the Sichuan earthquake."
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For more information on this issue:
- Press Release:
Rights Activist Huang Qi Detained on Suspicion of Holding State Secrets - Press Release:
Human Rights in China Condemns the Detention of Huang Qi by Police in Chengdu - HRIC Report:
State Secrets: China’s Legal Labyrinth, June 12, 2007,
http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/41421 - HRIC Press Release:
HRIC Deplores Intimidation of Rights Activists Ahead of U.S.-China Talks on Human Rights
