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China Censors HIV/AIDS Awareness Documentary

Posted by Soulskill on from the learn-it-the-hard-way dept.

eldavojohn writes "Amnesty International is reporting an unusual case of censorship in which Chinese police questioned HIV/AIDS workers in China and instructed them to cancel an airing of a documentary made by Aizhixing Institute of Health Education on the disease. The director of that NGO recently left China after constant police harassment. The canceled documentary was about Tian Xi, a patient who contracted HIV by blood transfusion at age 9."

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  1. Re:Health or Politics? by hedwards · · Score: 5, Informative

    Probably the fact that it makes the Chinese government look like inept morons. A lot of the disease transmission was due to incompetence by their health authorities in terms of blood transfusion techniques.

  2. unusual? by 1u3hr · · Score: 4, Informative
    "Amnesty International is reporting an unusual case of censorship"

    TFA doesn't use the word "unusual". And censorship like this isn't at all unusual. Aids activists have been censored, threatened and killed in many countries, not just China.