April 17, 2008

Relatives of Detained HIV-Positive Chinese Activists Speak Out

Relatives of detained HIV-positive Chinese protesters appealed to police to release them, Reuters India reports (in.reuters.com, 4/16).

The protesters were detained April 5 while attempting to meet with Premier Wen Jiabao to ask for compensation from the hospital where they say they contracted HIV from blood transfusions in the mid-’90s.

According to the article, the police detained 11 petitioners; seven or eight people still remain in custody.

“Our husbands have been detained, so how can we live?” one unidentified women said in the article. “We have come to Beijing to use the law to find out what happened to them.”

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