This is one of the most shocking of all the state censorship stories. The only answer to China’s AIDS crisis is information and honesty. This is the price to be paid by those who attempt to tell the truth:
A leading health official in China’s AIDS-stricken Henan province has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison on a conviction of leaking state secrets.
Ma Shiwen, deputy director of the Henan Centre for Disease Control (CDC), who was arrested several months ago for leaking documents on the Henan epidemic, was recently sentenced, according to Gao Yaojie, a well-known volunteer doctor in Henan.
This begs the question, Did China learn anything from the SARS fiasco? And do Hu’s promises of greater openness carry any weight, aside from propaganda value?
To this day, China has not revealed the true extent of the outbreak, despite recently beginning to seek funding from abroad to treat some of the victims.
So much for openness.
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By Winds of Change.NET
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