BBC News Online
June 13, 2006

Fu Xiancai, a Three Gorges migrant who has campaigned for years on behalf of people who were moved to make way for the dam, is in hospital with a broken neck and paralyzed from the shoulders down, Human Rights in China reports.

A Chinese campaigner for people displaced by the Three Gorges Dam has been beaten up soon after he was called in by police, a rights group said. Fu Xiancai was seriously injured last week after meeting Public Security Bureau officials in Hubei province, US-based Human Rights in China said. He is now in hospital with a broken neck and is paralysed from the shoulders down, the group said.