China: Rights defender Mao Hengfeng detained

Index Number: ASA 17/039/2012
Date Published: 4 October 2012
Categories: China

Mao Hengfeng, a housing rights and reproductive rights defender, was taken away by men in plain clothes believed to be Shanghai police officers in Beijing on 30 September. She was subsequently taken from Beijing to Shanghai, and is now detained in the Yangpu district police detention centre. She is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment.