‘HRIC calls on the Chinese authorities to ensure that Fu Xiancai is provided with any disability subsidies for medical treatment and financial support authorized under Chinese law, and to carry out a thorough and transparent inquiry into his attack.’

‘This happened in China,’ said foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu. Authorities have initiated an inquiry into the attack and the hospital is actively treating him, she said, adding that ‘they don’t wish to be disturbed.’

Fu Xiancai’s condition has suddenly worsened after post-operative complications developed Tuesday. He had to have an incision made into his airways after developing pneumonia, his son told DPA.

Fu Xiancai ‘had another small operation but it looks like it will take six months for him to recover and he won’t be able to use his arms and legs. The outlook is not very hopeful,’ said a friend.

For many Chinese, dream dam is a nightmare

(June 22, 2006) Construction of hydropower resources in Yangtze valley will be a “hot spot of state investment in the coming dozens of years,” People’s Daily

Fu Xiancai’s supporters could raise only 20,000 of the 60,000 yuan cost of the surgery. Police interfered with the collection of money. He was finally operated on 10 days after the attack, after German diplomats visited and paid for the operation.

‘Fu Xiancai, once a subsistence farmer who was forced off his land by China’s Three Gorges Dam project, has violated the cardinal rule in this Communist country. He has refused to shut up.’

Fairness of investigation in doubt.

Mountain community fights plans for a giant dam, in a country that badly needs more clean energy.

Chinese police held a German journalist for five hours after he spoke to villagers about controversial plans to dam the Nu River in Yunnan province.

The Three Gorges dam is ready to store a record amount of water after the summer flood season.

Human Rights in China has learned that authorities in Zigui county, Hubei province are keeping friends and family members of injured Three Gorges activist Fu Xiancai under close surveillance that is tantamount to harassment.

Authorities have told the family of paralyzed activist Fu Xiancai not to appeal the decision or file a new complaint.

Seven weeks after a brutal attack on activist Fu Xiancai, authorities in China say preliminary results of the investigation into the assault show that Fu fell and then caused the injuries himself.