Shanghai Police Break Up AIDS News Conference

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By REUTERS | The New York Times
April 20, 2006

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Police in the Chinese financial hub of Shanghai broke up a news conference by a group of haemophiliacs who say they contracted HIV/AIDS through contaminated blood transfusions, an activist said on Thursday. Journalists were detained and police surrounded the hotel where the event was taking place, said Wan Yanhai, the widely respected director of the Beijing Aizhixing Institute of Health Education.

Calls to the Shanghai city government and police were not answered.

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it's off topic but your site has finally got blocked in PRC. Congratulations! :)

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