China: Wang Wanxing: Dissident's continued detention in a psychiatric hospital: Update on Medical Action

Index Number: ASA 17/042/2002
Date Published: 19 August 2002
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, China

Wang Wanxing, a long-standing human rights activist, remains detained in Ankang psychiatric hospital in Beijing, reportedly without suffering from a mental illness. The ward is reportedly more secure and the regime stricter. Amnesty International is concerned at this change to his situation and the effect it may have on Wang Wanxing.