Three Gorges Probe

Paralysed China activist seeks justice in parliament

Reuters

March 5, 2007

Beijing: A Chinese activist working to help villagers displaced by the giant Three Gorges Dam and left paralysed after a beating last June, has appealed to China’s parliament for redress, according to a rights group.

Fu Xiancai, who has been petitioning since the 1990s for better compensation for the more than one million people flooded out of their homes by the dam, was beaten after meeting with police in Zigui county in central Hubei province last June. … "Although it has been eight months since I was attacked, I have not completely lost my faith in China’s judicial process, and pass every pain-filled day in hope that justice will soon arrive," Human Rights in China quoted Fu as saying. Read the full story.

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